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When I I have my Laptop hooked up to the docking station, it has a 2 screen setup. The problem I am having is when I play a video on one screen, the other screen automatically full screens the video.

It does this with every media player, anyone know how I can fix this?


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Hi Are you saying it appears on 1 screen in a window and on the other in full screen?


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Ya, the media player will appear on one screen in windowed mode, and the other screen will be full screen


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What's the model of the laptop and model of docking station?


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Dell Latitude D820, Docking station Model # PR01X


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Default Re: Help! Laptop 2nd Screen Problem

Sounds like the monitors are just being mirrored to me, and the laptop can't do the higher res that the monitor can do.

Press FN+the multi monitor button (can be F8, F5, F6, F4 - changes between models and companies) and make it so the LCD and CRT are both selected.
Then go to your display properties > settings > and select the second monitor, and tick the extend check box.


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