Windows xp second monitor shortcut

Why don't you experiment with it on your system and let me know. I'm not sure I could undue such a setting during the 0 seconds that the display is on! I went into Power Options and set the display timeout to "Never" in the current scheme then used powercfg to look at the value of the timeout value.

It's 0, so 0 means never timeout, never turn off the display. Much like it's sometimes hard to see sarcasm over text, it's sometimes hard to see genuine comments when they are intended as such.

I can see how my "2 seconds" comment may have come across the wrong way. I offer my apologies. I really was thankful for the people who at least bothered looking.

I think this site is fantastic. I'm not sure whether to post this in a new thread or just put it here since it's a similar inquiry. I was wondering whether there's a command or a program out there that shuts down your computer while exiting out of any programs after a specified of hrs. For example say I want to run an error check on my hard drive at night, but I don't want to leave my computer on the whole night, is there some sort of program that would shut the computer down after about 2 or 3 hrs.

Or if I'm running Norton at night is there something that would do the same while exiting Norton before shutting down? Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. General discussion. I have a computer that is going to be connected to a projector and a 19" LCD monitor. Is there a way to mirror the desktop image to the projector, instead of just extending the desktop? If so, how is this done? I do know that this is an option with Vista, but I didn't see it as an option with XP.

As mentioned above, you can just drag in Windows 7. And as the OP mentions, not in XP. For the latter, I have used a program called Display Fusion which might work. As I recall, there was a keyboard shortcut for this. It also does desktop background stuff. I opened this thread to recommend DisplayFusion Pro as well. Works a treat on my quad-monitor setup. When ever I type an exclamation point or a semi-colon…it will switch my active window over to the other monitor.

Does anyone know how to disable this? Swap keyboards temporarily and see if the behavior persists. A Ctrl, Alt, or Windows key might be stuck down. Report abuse.

Details required :. Cancel Submit. Use the following key combination to switch programs between screens. While keeping those two pressed hit the left or right arrow key to move the current active window left or right.