I want to add a second monitor to my laptop

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I have an HP laptop running Windows XP. I want to plug in a second monitor
to the video port so that I can use the second monitor for my audience to
view as I'm doing PowerPoint presentations. I plugged in the auxiliary
monitor to the video card port and played around a little bit in the display
settings. It seems that I can only get the second monitor to act as an
"extension" of the first monitor. In other words, I can view items in the
second monitor if I drag them there but it won't show up on the main monitor
then. I don't want an "extension" of the first monitor. I want the exact
same display to be viewed on both monitors so that the audience will see the
exact same thing on the second monitor that I see on the main monitor. Any
help?

M Ridzon

 

[RJK]

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/twomonitors.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/northrup_multimon.mspx
http://www.sctriallaw.com/trial-tec...splay-to-a-projector-or-external-monitor.html
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000801.htm
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/faq.asp
http://officeone.mvps.org/multi_monitor/multi_monitor_support.html

regards, Richard