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01-11-2012 03:07 PM
One of our employees has an HP Pavilion G6 laptop. He uses an external display at work but has to keep the screen of the laptop open. If he closes the screen, then the video to the external display is power off.
What are the settings to allow the laptop screen to be closed and still be able to get video to an external display?
Thanks.
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01-11-2012 03:18 PM
Banhien,
In Windows, click start and type into the search field, "Change what closing the lid does".
-wes
I am an HP employee.
01-11-2012 03:15 PM
Hi,
My setup on 2 machines: select external monitors as 1 (primary).
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01-11-2012 03:34 PM
Hi,
This is my current machine, I'm typing on it right now. I can show another three laptops tonight (one uses 22" Dell monitor, exactly the same as the one I'm using now; one uses 24" BenQ monitor and one uses 24" LG monitor).
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01-11-2012 03:35 PM
Sorry, I'm a Mac user trying to decipher Windows 7. I can get to the control panel but when I click "Identify" the numbers 1|2 show up on both the external display and the laptop display.
I also tried right-clicking the desktop but didn't see where I could designate which display I wanted as Priority 1.
Thanks.
01-11-2012 10:29 PM
@jtfey wrote:Bannheim, I couldn't get that window to show up in Windows 7. Thanks.
As promised, here are from Windows 7. The first image is from a laptop with docking station and the second image is from a laptop without docking station. Both run W7 Ultimate, the second one uses HDMI and the first one use DVI-D:
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01-12-2012 01:37 PM
Hi,
- Right click a blank space on desktop,
- Select Personalise/Personalize,
- Select Display (down, left hand side),
- Select Change Display settings.
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