This is driving me nuts, I hope someone can help.... I connected my PC laptop to my Plasma HDTV using a VGA cord last week and everything was fine. Everything was identical on both screens. Today I connected them again, I went into Display Properties, Settings, Identify and the #1 shows up on my computer monitor and the #2 shows up on my TV screen - I then checked my screen saver and it shows up fine on my TV screen and so does my desktop background (seems fine right?) The problem is..... my computer icons do not show up on my TV and I have to move my cursor way off the screen to make it visible on my TV. I tried to uncheck "Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor" but it is grayed out and won't allow me to. It's so strange this did not happen last week, everything was literally identical on my PC and TV. I can't figure out what happened. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Lisa, welcome to PCHF.

The "Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor" is disabled when you have the first monitor (primary) selected. If you click on the second screen, you will see this option enabled, and will be able to uncheck it again.

EDIT: Marked as Answered.