Using an Epson S3 Projector with a Gatway MK6543 Laptop

W

W. Watson

The laptop is running with XP (media) and has an ATI video display card
capable of handling two monitors. If I hook up the S3, my laptop shows a
normal desktop on its (main) screen, and the projector shows the background
(wallpaper) on the desktop but no icons.

If I open a window, say, with MWP, then MWP shows in the laptop view. To see
it on the projection screen, I have to pull MWP over to it. To operate MWP
then, I need to put the cursor in the projection (extended) screen. This
seems on one hand OK, but on the other not OK. I'd really like to see
everything from the laptop and the extended window on the projection screen.
Is it possible? So far I've had no luck doing that.

An oddity of the above arrangement is that when MWP is playing a DVD. If I
pause the DVD, the video disappears, although WMP is very much visible. If I
put WMP back in the main (laptop) screen and try the same thing, then a
pause shows the frame where I've paused. That I don't like. Is there a solution.

Oddly, if I close WMP in the extended screen, and then fire it up again, it
appears in the extended screen. It seems like it should always begin in the
main screen.

No amount of twiddling with the (two) checkboxes provided on the Display
Properties dialog seems to solve any of the last two oddities, or the first
"like to see" above in paragraph 2.
 
B

Bob I

You have set the "projector" to be an "extention" of the laptop desktop.
UNcheck that option in Display properties and it will be a "clone" of
the laptop.
 
W

W. Watson

For some reason that doesn't seem to do it.

Bob said:
You have set the "projector" to be an "extention" of the laptop desktop.
UNcheck that option in Display properties and it will be a "clone" of
the laptop.
 

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