primary monitor troubles
Apr. 15th, 2010 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslToday's Windows Update screwed up my ability to select my laptop screen as my primary monitor. Now my external monitor is primary. I've restarted the machine with the external monitor connected and disconnected. Nothing helps.
Whenever I select the laptop screen and check "Use this device as primary monitor" and click Apply, it gets confused and the laptop screen is disabled. At other times, this checkbox is greyed out.
If I disconnect the external monitor, then it behaves normally... but as soon as I reconnect it, there's a change of identity, and Screen 1 becomes Screen 2 and vice-versa.
Also: closing a laptop lid should not have any side-effects besides turning off the lights on the LCD! However, signals get sent, and sounds are often made.
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UPDATE: System Restore fixed it. I guess this update messed with some place in my registry...
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UPDATE 2: And now I'm being nagged to Windows Update all over again... How can I tell if it's the same or a new update?
Whenever I select the laptop screen and check "Use this device as primary monitor" and click Apply, it gets confused and the laptop screen is disabled. At other times, this checkbox is greyed out.
If I disconnect the external monitor, then it behaves normally... but as soon as I reconnect it, there's a change of identity, and Screen 1 becomes Screen 2 and vice-versa.
Also: closing a laptop lid should not have any side-effects besides turning off the lights on the LCD! However, signals get sent, and sounds are often made.
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UPDATE: System Restore fixed it. I guess this update messed with some place in my registry...
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UPDATE 2: And now I'm being nagged to Windows Update all over again... How can I tell if it's the same or a new update?