Help for a Colleague with an Acer Laptop

anno1664

Could someone help me with a problem a close colleague of mine has.

He is trying to connect his Acer laptop to his Toshiba television. Both items have the 15pin VGA socket. He has linked these together and all he gets on his TV is the backgound screen, but it shows no icons.
What does he need to do, to put this right

tr3mor

anno1664 wrote: »

Could someone help me with a problem a close colleague of mine has.

He is trying to connect his Acer laptop to his Toshiba television. Both items have the 15pin VGA socket. He has linked these together and all he gets on his TV is the backgound screen, but it shows no icons.
What does he need to do, to put this right

It sounds like he's got it set up as dual screens. He should be able to move the cursor onto the TV by going off the left or right of the laptop screen.

There's probably a function key on the laptop that lets him change this. You're looking for an "fn" button plus another button which will likely have a picture of two screens on it (I'm guessing one of the number keys). Hit this a few times til you get the desired result.

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Is "dual screens" the right thing. On my now deceased Acer you could click on the graphics icon in the task bar and here you choose whether to output to notebook, monitor(in this case the TV) or both, where the screens show exactly the same thing rather than having to move the cursor off one screen and onto another.

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if you right clcik the desktop and choose settings to bring up the display - thrre should be an option to clone the no2(TV) screen onto thel aptop monitor.