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Well, I give up . . . I was trying to make a simple (ha!) presentation today w/ my T61 and couldn't, for the life of me, figure out how to change from the projector showing and extended desktop to showing the same desktop as my T61. I messed around with Display > Properties > Settings, unselecting "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" (when it wasn't greyed out), but every time it would flicker and flash and either go 'extended' or 'blue' (i.e., my T61 displayed its normal desktop but the projector would show a blue screen and something like "Searching for input"). So is this normal? I suspect not, but I have so little experience with projectors that it may well be. What do I have to know to make my T61 show one a projector what it shows on the screen? I didn't play with any settings in Presentation Director--just pressed Fn+F7 and selected "Presenter Mode" (I think . . . ). Is there a setting in PD I'd have to play with as well? I no longer have the projector (or a second monitor) to play with, but if there's something simple I'm missing, I'd love to know it for next time.

For me it works best if both Thinkpad internal display and the external projector are set to the same resolution. Your external projector was presumably set to XGA or SVGA resolution, you then should match your Thinkpad screen to the same resolution (this has always worked for me with 4:3 Thinkpad screens, I haven't tried it yet with a widescreen Thinkpad like you have).