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AmarnathKarthik

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Hi everyone please let me explain my situation here. i built my own rig very recently with nvidia graphic card and i have set up windows 8 on to my computer and when i click on to the screen resolution from the start i see two screen display settings when you choose one of them it is the regular desktop mode where you see all the icons on the screen in another screen display mode all you see is just the start icon in the task bar and nothing else and i thought we should use that screen when i want to play a game using the nvidia gpu so only while gaming i had to chose the resolution this was my assumption so i opted to choose the other screen to display and i could not do anything since then the cursor is working fine i am able to right click and whenever i tried to open any of the settings it goes into minimized mode and i wasnt able to do anything else. please help what should i do now? and if we have graphic card installed do we ought to have two screen displays in the screen resolution? if not how to get rid of the 2nd display screen? i hope i explained it well enough about my problem...expecting your expertise.

Regards - Amar
 
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Justin Millard
Other things you can try are the windows icon on your keyboard to shift you to desktop or moving your mouse in to the different corners of the screen where some Windows 8 options are kept. I'm sending you a few ideas as it is hard to tell what exactly is your problem.
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Justin Millard

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Try moving around with the f4 key to get back to a proper working display. Then right click your desktop, select screen resolution and click detect. Under display if you have an intel CPU choose available display output intel graphics. That should fix your problems.
 
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Justin Millard

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Sorry I could have explained that better. When you pressed f4 did an option come up for project?
There should be four options: pc screen, duplicate, extend, and second screen only. Pressing f4 opens up the menu and every press after that moves you to another option you can choose with enter.

If the settings to display correctly are setup you should be able to choose them that way.
 
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Other things you can try are the windows icon on your keyboard to shift you to desktop or moving your mouse in to the different corners of the screen where some Windows 8 options are kept. I'm sending you a few ideas as it is hard to tell what exactly is your problem.
 
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AmarnathKarthik

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no you explained it well there is no function key and f4 did nothing :( why do i have two screen displays in the first place ? if you have a graphic card you ought to have two ? i hate this i am not able to do anything however many times i tried restarting :(
 
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Justin Millard

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This is the option that should fix your problem:
"right click your desktop, select screen resolution and click detect. Under display if you have an intel CPU choose available display output intel graphics. That should fix your problems. " That should do it.
 
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AmarnathKarthik

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no sorry i dont get it yes i right clicked and went into screen resoultion and then clicked detect so there popped up an image along with my screen 1 and screen 2 icons saying "another display not detected" then as you said i clicked on the "display" drop down tab where i s display one as my BenQ RL2455 and number 2 is the same BenQ RL255 and the 3rd "Available display output on: intel(R) HD Graphics 4600. what am i supposed to do now to get rid of one of the BenQ display ?
 
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AmarnathKarthik

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ok i will keep the first one sorry for asking too many questions in the multiple displays drop down tab which one should i choose ? there are multiple options like duplicate these displays, extend these displays, show desktop only on 1 and show desktop only on 2 ? so which one ?
 
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Justin Millard

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Do not worry about bothering me. Its a puzzle that I like solving.
Anyway, I think I have helped you as much as I can. I trust you to work out what are the right options for you from here.

Best of luck to you with your new computer!
 
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