Well, work gfave me an ancient evo to telecommute with, and other than it being slow, is not too bad. Only one question - when I play with it in regular mode, I can use teh second screen [a very nice 19" flatscreen spare I have around] but when I VPN in to my imaginary desk, it loses the second monitor function.
If I try to have a spreadsheet open along the top of the screen, and a database in the lower right corner, the dainty little 14 inch screen just doesnt cut it. I really NEED the larger screen.
Is there some way I can get to use a larger screen rather than the built in one before I go insane? My productivity was sort of shot to hell today trying to flip around through the 3 or 4 screens that I normally keep open because i need to use them all pretty much constantly.
<crawls off whimpering in pain from the damned headache the microscopic screen is causing - along with the infernal AC power whine it seems to suffer from.>
I had a n410c, and I loved it. So thin! Pretty solid, too, I dropped it more than once onto concrete. My girlfriend uses it now.
It sounds like whatever VPN client you’re using sucks. Have you tried pressing the “Fn” key and the display select key (probably F4)? This should allow you to cycle between the built in display, external display, tv-out(if any), and both displays concurrently.
Also, make sure that the display drivers are up-to-date, go to the HP or Compaq website and look up your computer in the support section. Integrated graphics drivers are usually manufacturer specific.
Also, look in your display properties in the “Settings” tab, and check out the setup there.
Which VPN client are you using? The critical point is that it is telling the remote machine you desktop is only 1024x768 or whatever. So that’s all the remote machine “displays”, which is teleported to your local display, leaving most of your actual local desktop unused.
If you are using Windows Remote Desktop Client, there is a switch you can add to tell it to tell the remote machine to use a desktop the size of your actual local one. When you start RDC & get the dialog to enter the remote machine, just add “/span” without the quotes after the machine name or IP address. Leave a space between the address and the “/”.
Ill try the fn to cycle through displays - hopefully that will work. As far as anything else, I cant even change images on desktops or change the colors on my windows, I am not the administrator. Adding drivers are right out
Not sure what VPM I am uising, I just know it isnt windows remote desktop. As I am on a laptop, I cant tell it to change sizes because the laptop screen is microscopic. The issue is such that /span would not work, the laptop screen is supported just fine, the second monitor has no functionality.
I still use a n610c daily, I never really thought that it was that out of date. I agree it’s a pain to do any serious work on (although I do photo-editing on it quite comfortably).
Hmmm, that’s going to prove problematic. You want to get to the situation where the second screen is considered primary screen. Depending what drivers you have you’ll have a display control program somewhere (perhaps as an icon in the system tray on the bottom right). I can use mine to change which screen is primary / secondary etc. You can do it from the display dialog too (right click the desktop) but if you’re not admin you might be limited.
It’d help to know what software you’re running. What you use it do you get your entire remote desktop in a window? Or can you just open seperate windows that appears on the laptop like any other? Or does the remote screen completely replace the local screen? If it’s the last case how do you exit that screen?