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How do i connect my tv to my laptop again so they display same thing? On vista?

I was watching tv on my laptop and trying to adjust the slider bar to change it from 800x600 to 1280x800 like I have done multiple times in the past, but now the laptop screen does not display on the tv screen? Instead I only see my desktop back ground and it seems to be acting like another monitor and I have to drag the window over to the television set.

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  • topdn
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    what you need to do is clone the display (FN F5) not extend it to the tv

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Open control panel. Enter Personalization. Click Display Settings.It will show your laptop monitor and your Tv make sure you set your TV as the main display. There you go.

    Source(s): i use dual monitors and connect laptop to HD tv
  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Jerry's answer is actual. First make effective each and all the connections are fantastic (and inserted completely) and then make effective that your television is set to the ideas-blowing enter channel. My television, as an celebration, has 4 hdmi inputs. 2 of that are consistently linked. and then there are element and auxiliary channels to alter previous approximately too. i make the main of my pc as a bluray participant and for this reason would desire to prefer to plug my hdmi cable into my pc. I try this to observe shows on hulu as nicely. super distinction between an 18" widescreen and a 40" widescreen. :) So I even have it linked on a effortless beginning. flow into your Presentation Settings (would desire to prefer to be in or around demonstrate settings) and in basic terms be effective you have the ideas-blowing demonstrate set up for as quickly as you connect an hdmi cable. I even have have been given right here in the process that some disks (blurays) won't enable particular presentation demonstrate settings because of the fact it thinks it fairly is violating the very own presentation policies, even tho i'm the only one using it. lol. this may be your case. i've got have been given had to regulate to moving my very own pc to the television demonstrate reveal, somewhat than including it as a 2d video demonstrate or as a duplicate image of the demonstrate demonstrate reveal. So my demonstrate reveal in basic terms is going black mutually as the hdmi cable is connected and everythign shows up on the television in easy terms. it fairly is exciting by skill of certainty i could get a "no sign" on the television mutually as the countless settings may be disallowed.

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