how do we put up 2 screens

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You should be able to set it up in the Windows Control Panel>Display
 
I think with a laptop you will need some special hardware to do this. Laptops with multipe display options are not the same thing as a dual head video card, they are designed to use one or the other or both, but not both in a continuous desktop space
 
you need a dual (or multi) video card.
however, i remember working with a projector (windows treats it as a screen, a display device) on a tower case PC, and we (somehow!) managed to get what looked like a shared, continuous desktop. but it may have been a case of misunderstanding what we were seeing, or we were using the motherboards onboard graphics alongside a PCI card... not sure. so with a laptop it miiiiigggghhhtttt be possible. no guarantee though. what i'm told 90% of the time is that it's only possible with a multiheaded card.
 
My laptop does dual screens just fine. I don't remember selecting any special graphics stuff when I bought it either. It's just a fairly standard Dell laptop. I would try plugging in a monitor to the analog vga output on the back and then activating your extended desktop from within windows. My bet is that it will work.
 
fairly standard Dell laptop
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Dells are the only ones I have seen this on, but that may have changed. If you do have it, It will be accessable via the display properties/Settings/advanced/the applet for your video card
 
xstatic said:
My laptop does dual screens just fine. I don't remember selecting any special graphics stuff when I bought it either. It's just a fairly standard Dell laptop. I would try plugging in a monitor to the analog vga output on the back and then activating your extended desktop from within windows. My bet is that it will work.
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My HP does it exactly like that. No problems. Worked great.

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Yup ....
I've got an old HP lappy 700MHz PIII that can run dual screen (mirrored or extended desktop).
Like the others said, check the advanced settings for your display properties.
 
you should have a fn key towards the bottom left of the keyboard. most new and some old laptops can do dual screen. notice your keyboard has other symbols a different color and the fn key is the same color as those. the fn key activiates those keys. hold down the fn key and the key that has two squares in it one small and one large which reprisents two monitors and press that one usually its one of the f keys this all depends on the brand of laptop Every time you hit the function key it will switch mode from single screen to double screen ( meaning the screens are identical) to dual screen. Of course you need another monitor. But first check if you laptop supports dual view by checking the properties right click anywhere on your screen and go to properties then settings and see if you see two monitors. If you don’t see two monitors there then most likely you will not get the dual view mode. You will get the clone option only( identical view)
 
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