External monitor toggling

[Justin]

Is there a way I can toggle between my laptop monitor and my external monitor
without using the keyboard on my laptop? This will sound lame, but my
keyboard on my laptop messes up and won't work, so I have to have it
unplugged and use an external keyboard. THerefore, I'm unable to just use the
fn+f5 toggle key I got so used to using. I don't want it to do the dualview,
I don't want it to display on my laptop screen since my laptop max resolution
is 1024x768 and my external monitor goes higher. Does anyone know if there's
a toggle function in the windows system that would do the same trick as the
keyboard controls? Thanks.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Create a shortcut to this file:

--F5.vbs--
set shell=createobject("wscript.shell")
shell.sendkeys "{F5}"
--end file--

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[Mark L. Ferguson]

Create a shortcut to this file:

--F5.vbs--
set shell=createobject("wscript.shell")
shell.sendkeys "{F5}"
--end file--

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[Justin]

I guess I don't know what I'm doing well enough to follow that? A little more
explanation please? And what is this doing, btw?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Open Notepad, and paste in the two lines, then save as F5.vbs.

set shell=createobject("wscript.shell")
shell.sendkeys "{F5}"


You can create a shortcut to F5.vbs to use from anywhere you like. 'Pi'n it
to the start menu, or QuickLaunch, or whatever. It sends the keystroke "F5"

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[Justin]

Ok, well, that helped, but still not what I needed. I have an F5 button on my
keyboard, I need the "FN" function so I can toggle the monitor...Any clue as
to that? or am I just missing something?