Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations wOOdy-Soft on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Change Primary monitor in ulti-monitor setup

Status
Not open for further replies.

mweinstock

IS-IT--Management
Oct 21, 2002
66
US
I have a laptop (WinXP Pro, SP1) that is connected to an external monitor. Until recently, when the laptop was connected to the monitor, the monitor was the primary, and the laptop display secondary (the desktop icons and taskbar were on the external monitor). Now, for some reason, it has changed to the laptop display being primary.

I have gone into the display settings to try to change it back, but the checkbox for "use this device as my primary monitor" is greyed out for both displays. I cannot deselect it fo the laptop, and I cannot select it for the external monitor.

Any suggestions would be most welcome. No, I cannot upgrade to SP2. This is a corporate laptop, but our IT support is a bit lacking.

Thanks,

Mark

--
How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top