Toggle to external monitor

I have loaded Vista Home Premium (unwisley) onto my Sony Vaio VGN-TX - only
problem is it does not now let me toggle using F7 to an external LCD monitor
and I will go blind looking at a small screen all day! Has anyone found a
patch/download that fixes the problem and would they please send a link -
thanks

"dar" <> wrote in message
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>I have loaded Vista Home Premium (unwisley) onto my Sony Vaio VGN-TX - only
> problem is it does not now let me toggle using F7 to an external LCD
> monitor
> and I will go blind looking at a small screen all day! Has anyone found a
> patch/download that fixes the problem and would they please send a link -
> thanks

That shortcut key (f7) is NOT part of vista, rather it was a feature of your
driver...

you can still do that manually from the display settings

Try pressing the "FN" key with "F7", if there is one.
Other wise.

If using nVidia control panel > right click any blank space on desktop >
select "nvidia control panel" > select "display" > choose your config and
apply.

If using windows display manager > right click any blank space on desktop >
select "personalize display" > select "display settings"(at bottom of the
screen) > choose your monitor config and apply.

If none of these work then maybe the drivers you got aren't vista drivers.



"dar" <> wrote in message
news:9ECF6C95-2065-40AF-BA55-...
>I have loaded Vista Home Premium (unwisley) onto my Sony Vaio VGN-TX - only
> problem is it does not now let me toggle using F7 to an external LCD
> monitor
> and I will go blind looking at a small screen all day! Has anyone found a
> patch/download that fixes the problem and would they please send a link -
> thanks

Have you checked the Sony web site? They have provided
a lot of Vista drivers for their laptops. I have a Vaio VGN-AX570,
and I now have Vista drivers for everything.

-- Larry Maturo

"dar" <> wrote in message
news:9ECF6C95-2065-40AF-BA55-...
>I have loaded Vista Home Premium (unwisley) onto my Sony Vaio VGN-TX - only
> problem is it does not now let me toggle using F7 to an external LCD
> monitor
> and I will go blind looking at a small screen all day! Has anyone found a
> patch/download that fixes the problem and would they please send a link -
> thanks

Many thanks all but does not resolve. The F7 hotkey is enabled but does not
recognise an external monitor (or probably even a projector for that matter)
as XP did. Display settings does allow me to open a primary display on the
laptop and a secondary on the external monitor which helps a bit but I am
really after replication the view on the laptop directly to monitor.

I have downloaded all the sony vaio vista upgrades, but may do so again

Any other thoughts appreciated.

"TheEnemyWithin" wrote:

>
>
> "dar" <> wrote in message
> news:9ECF6C95-2065-40AF-BA55-...
> >I have loaded Vista Home Premium (unwisley) onto my Sony Vaio VGN-TX - only
> > problem is it does not now let me toggle using F7 to an external LCD
> > monitor
> > and I will go blind looking at a small screen all day! Has anyone found a
> > patch/download that fixes the problem and would they please send a link -
> > thanks
>
> That shortcut key (f7) is NOT part of vista, rather it was a feature of your
> driver...
>
> you can still do that manually from the display settings
>
>
>