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Exploring Your Options
Changing the display properties setting
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4 The Monitor Settings window appears and asks if you
want to keep the settings.
5 Click Yes .
6 To change the settings back, repeat steps 2 through 5.
Directing the display output when you turn on the computer
Once you have connected an external display device, you can
choose to use the internal display only, the external device
only, or both simultaneously. The quickest way to change the
display output settings is to use the display hot key (
Fn + F5).
1 While holding down
Fn, press F5 repeatedly until the
desired setting is highlighted.
This hot key cycles through the display output settings in
the following order:
❖ Built-in display panel only
❖ Built-in display panel and external monitor
simultaneously
❖ External monitor only
❖ Built-in display panel and external video device
simultaneously
To use this setting, you must first enable the different
refresh rates option. See “Enabling different video
refresh rates” on page 186.
❖ Other external video device only