Dual display - how to on R51??

[susan0101]

Hi -

we are trying to make the display on the laptop work when we are attached to a projector - so we can see the screen BOTH places. Anyone have advice - it seems to be either or, with no option for both.

Susan

[basketb]

Have you tried the Presentation Director software?

[susan0101]

We attempted to load that, but as it was loading it told us that was missing files. Got a good place to get it in it's complete form??

[basketb]

I think this one here http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-46022 is the latest supported on the R51. You could also try a newer version that is not officially supported by Lenovo on the R51.

[schen]

Hi -

we are trying to make the display on the laptop work when we are attached to a projector - so we can see the screen BOTH places. Anyone have advice - it seems to be either or, with no option for both.

Susan

I work at a school which uses R60s and 61s which have Presentation directors loaded. All the classrooms have projectors and the teachers use them for all manner of media presentation. Although the machines are somewhat different, what I'm about to explain should work on your machine as well.

* We found that we could hook up a projector to a laptop and treat the projector as a second monitor and have Windows extend the desktop to that monitor. It works better than using Presentation Director which only replicates what's on the desktop.
* You do this by shutting down Presentation Director Fn-F7, Normal Display only.
* Right click on your desktop and go down to "properties"
* Click on the Settings Tab
* Grab the screen marked "2" and drag it to the correct side to replicate where it is in relation to your machine.
* When you let go of the mouse button, it will ask you if you want to "extend your desktop to this monitor" Answer "yes" and you'll be able to drag things over to what the projector is showing

We use this all the time in such cases as starting a PowerPoint on the projector for the students to start a "warm-up" exercise while we open up the attendence on the laptop screen to take roll where the students can't see each other's personal data. It works well for us.

Remember, you have to disengage Presentation Director first if it's running or Windows will get your screens backward!