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Restoring laptop internal screen as main display

Anonymous
2021-02-08T14:26:16+00:00

I currently use an older Dell laptop running Windows 7, which I connect to an old monitor (HP w19) as an extended screen.  This all works fine.

I bought a new HP Dragonfly Windows 10 with a view to replacing the Dell.  When I connected it to the monitor it didn’t work, and displayed the message “Input not supported”.  I’ve seen this before and have usually managed to get it to work.

However, while playing around with the new laptop display settings, as an experiment (foolish, as it turns out) I set the monitor to be the main display. 

I cannotnow reverse this setting.

When I unplug the monitor, the display settings on the laptop don’t show the monitor screen and so I cannot tell it to stop using the monitor as main display.  When I connect the monitor, the laptop sends the settings panel to the monitor screen which I cannot see, hence cannot correct the setting.

HP support have suggested that I do a system restore of the new laptop, which seems quite drastic, and I am reluctant to do as it will delete some work I have done since.  I cannot believe there is no better way to reset one simple setting, just to set laptop screen as main display. 

Can you please help?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-02-08T15:02:01+00:00

    Hi ChrisHayward4,

    Good day! This is Jhakesong an Independent Advisor and I will be happy to assist you with this.

    To set the laptop screen back as the main display, you can press Windows key + P, then select PC Screen Only. It should tell windows to use your laptop screen as the main display.

    Let me know how it goes. Have a great day!

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-02-08T16:31:47+00:00

    Using Windows-P, as JhakeSong suggested, helped because I found that pressing Windows-P multiple times cycled through the options (extended screen, duplicate screen, monitor only...) until it came back to laptop screen only - even though I couldn't actually see it happening on the monitor.

    So I now have control of my screens back!

    thanks JhakeSong!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-08T15:44:11+00:00

    Thanks JhakeSong!

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