Saturday, March 1, 2008

Add an external monitor,keyboard and mouse to your laptop


If you’re like me, sometimes you want to sit at your desk with your laptop, using a bigger keyboard and larger monitor. Well you might already know you can do just that. I usually
Plug in an external keyboard and monitor and leave the laptop sitting to the side. See the picture up top; monitor connected to the DB Connector (the blue 15 pin connector.), mouse connected to the USB port and keyboard at the end right-side (purple thing).
Or sometime you might be struggling with tiling or overlapping windows on your laptop’s LCD screen; you can just hook up a second monitor and extend your windows desktop work space so you can run multiple applications on separate screens. Whenever I’m using my graphic program, I usually have the images on one screen and the toolbars on another. I have a Dell inspiron 5000 laptop (and a inspiron 8000 too) running Windows XP, all I got to do is just plug the monitor up to it and then boot it up. Windows XP automatically recognize the second mother and set it up, all I might have to do is change the resolution on one of the screens.
Most laptops already have two video adapters-one for the built-in LCD and one for an external monitor, you don’t even have buy anything.
If you’re running a older operating systems like Windows 98, me… You might have to go to the Display Properties to choose the option to enable the second monitor.

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