Dual monitors displaying indentically

Dual monitors worked well. Now booting says it has loaded standard VGA
monitor and both monitors are displaying the same thing.
How do I get back to enabling a wide desktop with Excel on one moitor and
email on the other?

Regards
--
Doug

Control Panel/Appearance and Personalization/(your graphics card setup,
Nvidia or whatever)
or
right click on an empty bit of your desktop and look for display settings.
Doug, though a different one

"Doug" <> wrote in message
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> Dual monitors worked well. Now booting says it has loaded standard VGA
> monitor and both monitors are displaying the same thing.
> How do I get back to enabling a wide desktop with Excel on one moitor and
> email on the other?
>
> Regards
> --
> Doug

I know that. What options can I change to fix?
It shows only ONE monitor, but displays the same thing on BOTH monitors.
--
Doug


"Doug" wrote:

> Control Panel/Appearance and Personalization/(your graphics card setup,
> Nvidia or whatever)
> or
> right click on an empty bit of your desktop and look for display settings.
> Doug, though a different one
>
> "Doug" <> wrote in message
> newsDF37678-9238-4FA6-AEC9-...
> > Dual monitors worked well. Now booting says it has loaded standard VGA
> > monitor and both monitors are displaying the same thing.
> > How do I get back to enabling a wide desktop with Excel on one moitor and
> > email on the other?
> >
> > Regards
> > --
> > Doug
>
>

I would suspect a third party configuration utility placed in Control Panel
by the maker of the system. Look for an icon in Control Panel referring to
your graphics card.

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"Doug" <> wrote in message
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> I know that. What options can I change to fix?
> It shows only ONE monitor, but displays the same thing on BOTH monitors.
> --
> Doug
>
>
> "Doug" wrote:
>
>> Control Panel/Appearance and Personalization/(your graphics card setup,
>> Nvidia or whatever)
>> or
>> right click on an empty bit of your desktop and look for display
>> settings.
>> Doug, though a different one
>>
>> "Doug" <> wrote in message
>> newsDF37678-9238-4FA6-AEC9-...
>> > Dual monitors worked well. Now booting says it has loaded standard
>> > VGA
>> > monitor and both monitors are displaying the same thing.
>> > How do I get back to enabling a wide desktop with Excel on one moitor
>> > and
>> > email on the other?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > --
>> > Doug
>>
>>

Doug <> wrote:

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>>> Dual monitors worked well. Now booting says it has loaded standard VGA
>>> monitor and both monitors are displaying the same thing.
>>> How do I get back to enabling a wide desktop with Excel on one
>>> moitor and email on the other?
>>
>> Control Panel/Appearance and Personalization/(your graphics card setup,
>> Nvidia or whatever)
>> or
>> right click on an empty bit of your desktop and look for display
>> settings. Doug, though a different one
>
> I know that. What options can I change to fix?
> It shows only ONE monitor, but displays the same thing on BOTH monitors.


You should be looking for an option to change from Mirror, to Extend or
Span. I prefer Extend, as Span spans the same desktop and Taskbar across
both monitors, while Extend has two seperate Desktops that can be arranged
in any position. UltraMon will give you a lot of further options, including
a second Taskbar. www.ultramon.com

ss.