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Setting up an external monitor to repalce a broken laptop monitor

My laptop screen is cracked and i can only see about 10% I plugged in my desktop monotor to it. That was working fine till some screen came up and now all i see on the desk top monitor is my background on the broken laptop, no icons nothing.

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  • cassigarner Dec 29, 2008

    I can only see the top left corner of my laptop, about the size of a half dollar coin. On the external monitor i plugged in the only thing I see is my desktop background. No icons, cant see the mouse arrow, or the start button

  • Anonymous May 18, 2009

    ey, my laptop was also cracked, i was kinda wondering, is it possible to fix it's screen and replace it's LCD?

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    So all your Icons are hidden now?

    Is your windows start button still there?

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Press alt+ctrl+del
task manager will open
selct new task
select run
in the displayed dialog box type "explorer" and press "enter" button.
now u will be ok

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You somehow changed your display settings to show desktop and not what it normally should be which is to mimic what you normally see on your laptop's lcd screen. You can do this by going to start_control panel_display settings or right click on the desktop and click properties then click display settings and make sure the "extend the desktop onto this monitor is checked." Make sure the cable is plugged in for the TV and is connected.

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Right click on the desktop
Click arrange icons by
Click show desktop icons

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