massageseeker said:
I am trying to do a slide show from my notebook. I have it done on my hard drive and when I play "view as slide show" it works great. However, I would like to hook up my monitor from my home computer to it as it is bigger and will look good for my presentation.
Everytime I hook my monitor to my notebook (Flat screen) it will allow me to drag my mouse side to side. It will allow me to drag folder of my slide show to other monitor but when I hit view slide show it keeps playing on my note book .. any suggestions guys ?
It sounds like you're able to connect the external monitor to run off your laptop, but that you're running Windows XP and have the display settings set to use the second monitor as an extended workspace. In that case, Windows XP does cause the monitor to behave strangely as you noted and to try to run some applications (and to pop up some menus) always on the screen identified as #1.
A simple solution is to go into Control Panel and then select the Display or Monitor and select the advanced settings to turn off the option that extends your desktop to both monitors. Then using whatever key combinations or menu commands your computer uses, change the primary display so that it is the monitor and so the LCD is blank - or let both be active at the same time in which case the slide show will display on both the LCD and monitor simultaneously.
For example, on an IBM Thinkpad, once you turn the extended desktop option off in Control Panel you simply use the Fn-F7 key combination to open the dialogue box that allows you to set the screen/presentation options (if you have a digital monitor, just select one of the projector settings of the appropriate resolution, otherwise use the analogue monitor). You can also create your own custom presentation/dual display settings if you want.
Once you turn the extended desktop option, it's relatively straightforward to use the external monitor for presentations and slide shows.
