Faster way to switch between monitor and TV display?
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Faster way to switch between monitor and TV display?
Naja | Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 08:14 am     Hi, is there a faster way to switch between monitor and TV display? Right now the way I do it, it's about 10 clicks into settings. Right click desk top, properties, settings tab, advanced, geforce tab, nview display mode, device settings, choose tv, click ok on the pop up, and something else, then the whole thing again to go back to monitor, but it's a pain. Is there a shorter way? Thanks a bunch. XP Naja |
Draheid | Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 11:23 am     Naja: I have GeForce2 MX100/200 display adapter and the utilities that come with it allow you to setup 'profiles' that you can load with just a couple of clicks. I haven't played with them much yet so I'm not sure how much detail you can setup in a profile. I believe you could configure one profile for normal viewing and a 2nd profile for use with the TV display. In the display properties - settings tab, I have an 'Advanced' button that takes me to more settings for the adapter. Clicking 'Advanced' brings up another dialog box. On my computer, I have a tab labeled 'GeForce2 MX 100/200' which brings up another box to the left of the control panel. In that box, clicking on 'Desktop Utilities' allows you to select a 'Display the Media Center icon in the taskbar' which will give you greater controls. I haven't played with any of this much before, however I think you might find some useful tools in there for setting things up to be much easier for you. Take a look and see if you have any of these options and if you can figure out how to make them useful for you. Hope this helps. Let me know if you get 'stuck' with any and I will be happy to see if I can help you through that too. |
Naja | Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 12:47 pm     Ok, I went clicking around and couldn't find those settings in mine (GeForce4 MX 420) that you described in yours, we seem to have completely different things listed on that side panel that pops out, but I still managed to figure it out while in the search process. (Thank goodness I am not afraid to click anything and everything..LOL) Here's what I did. When I right clicked on the desk top, another choice was "nView mode display" so I decided to click it. There was a tab on it that said "hot keys"....On that panel there were about 25 actions you could assign hotkeys to, one of which was "switch to next display device"..So I highlighted that (not really even knowing for sure if that was what I wanted) Anyway, I assigned that action the hotkey of ctrl+shift+v. Applied, closed everything up, and guess what? Now when I hit ctrl+shift+v, it instantly switches to tv or back to monitor! Thank you, Happy camper Naja |
Naja | Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 01:18 pm     oops, I made a mistake in my above post... When I right clicked on my desktop, I chose "nview properties", not mode display, to get to where to assign hotkeys. |
Iceprincess | Monday, July 07, 2003 - 09:08 pm     I just set it to clone and that way it will just keep them both up and I switch the tv to the channel I need. |
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