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Toshiba laptop NB300 dual screen problems

I have a Toshiba NB300 laptop with Windows 7 and it has one monitor port on the side. I've have tried plugging in another monitor but it wont let me dual screen (ie 2 independent displays). I can ...
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App to peek at 2nd monitor?

I have two screens. The 2nd is not facing me. I occasionally want to check if it looks correct. How do I get my screen (monitor 1) to show me what monitor 2 looks like briefly? This should not make ...
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Dual Monitor on Windows causing calibration error on tablet (input device) when using Windows Journal

Recently, I got a dual monitor set up for my desktop running on Windows 7. However, this causes some problems with my tablet input-device in certain applications. I use Windows Journal very ...
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multi-screen switcher

I have a windows 7 machine with vmware and 2 monitors. The first one, with vmware on fullscreen, and the second one as the main screen with windows 7 with the browser and some applications, is there ...
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Is there a way to display some web-page on separate monitor constantly, even if computer is locked?

I would like to display web-page with some real-time status information constantly. If I just configure two monitors and open fill-screen web-browser with this web-page on one of monitors, then web-...
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login window opend in right monitor

I have a dual monitor system (set as extended) and my problem is when I log into an application, it opens a login window in the right monitor and only after that it displays the application's window ...
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Not able to detect third screen on onboard VGA

Does somebody have some experience with the following problem. I just remasterd from Xp to Windows 7(32-bit) a HP desktop with aditional Nvidia graphic card. The graphic card allows the users to use 3 ...
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Fraps with dual monitors

I'm running dual monitors on Windows 7. Is there a way to configure Fraps to record from a specific monitor?
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Multiple monitor performance on external docking station

I have a Lenovo T400 and Toshiba Dynadock. I just bought a Dell Ultrasharp U2412M for it and it seems that there is a little bit of a lag in rendering. I want to add another 24 inch monitor to it but ...
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Using 4 monitors with 2 generic video cards... possible?

I'm thinking of setting up 4 monitors in a grid, using two video cards, one card to feed each pair of monitors through the card's two DVI ports. The most important requirement for me is to have the ...
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Dual monitors "reset" intermittently when certain programmes are run

I have updated to the latest driver, which has made the problem less frequent, but still a daily or more occurrence. Windows 7 SP1 64-bit NVIDIA NVS 300, NVIDIA driver 8.17.12.6570 Primary monitor: ...
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How can I resolve a "dim screen" issue on both on board and nvidia graphics?

My new laptop has Intel HD integrated video and an Nvidia card. Both drivers are enabled according to the device manager. Should I disable the integrated video or leave both running? I'm having the '...
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Dell laptop connecting to an external monitor - everything looks too big

I have a Dell XPS Studio 1640 which displays in 1900 by 1200 res. Recently, I bought a 19" monitor for it which has a maximum resolution of about 1300 or so. The problem though is when I plug it in, ...
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Upgrade Remote Desktop in Vista to support multiple monitors?

I am using Windows 7 and I was able to remote desktop into another Windows 7 machine and use multiple monitors. Is there a way to do the same when connecting to a Windows Vista machine? Is there ...
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Blank displays after inactivity, mouse cursor not showing up

I have a Windows 7 Enterprise x86 machine that is exhibiting some strange problems. After some inactivity (it varies how long it takes), when I come back to my computer, both of my monitors are black....
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