I spent a while last night trying to get my tv hooked upto watch films from the laptop. Within minutes, I'd resorted to good old Google. I had the correct cable so just had go to control panel / appearance and personalisation / personalisation / display settings, then click on screen 2, mess with the resolution, and hey presto, it sort of worked. I had the decktop background but no icons on my tv. Anyway, I'll not bore you (too late I know), but after experimenting, I found myself with NO icons or mouse pointer on the laptop, NOTHING on tv, and no way to undo what I'd done. Well, how can you do ANYTHING with no mouse pointer!!!!!!!!!! And my main source of power (Google) wasn't accessible!
WHY THE FLIBBERTY FLOB WOULD ANYONE WANT THIS OPTION ?????!!!!!
Fortunately, I know 2 (and it's only 2) 'tricks' on the 'puter. Press and hold 'off' to turn it off when it all goes t1ts up. This didn't work, but combined with my other bit of knowledge (hold F1 whilst booting up, and entering safe mode) and with more luck than judgement, all became well and calmness returned.
I'm not sure if I fluked a fix, or the pc just got fed up with being interfered with and fixed itself.
WHY THE FLIBBERTY FLOB WOULD ANYONE WANT THIS OPTION ?????!!!!!
Fortunately, I know 2 (and it's only 2) 'tricks' on the 'puter. Press and hold 'off' to turn it off when it all goes t1ts up. This didn't work, but combined with my other bit of knowledge (hold F1 whilst booting up, and entering safe mode) and with more luck than judgement, all became well and calmness returned.
I'm not sure if I fluked a fix, or the pc just got fed up with being interfered with and fixed itself.