External monitor from a laptop

[glocko]

After carefully treading on my laptop and buggering up the LCD screen I need a temporary solution.
I've connected a LCD monitor to it and when I boot up all I get is my laptop wallpaper on the monitor, no icons curser etc (although they do appear on what's left of my laptop screen)
The laptop does work, no mechanical damage.
Have I not done all of the settings correctly?
Thanks chaps
Running XP btw

[Plotloss]

This may be tricky...

The desktop is in all probability set to extend onto the second monitor rather than be a duplicate of the laptop screen.

Some laptops allow you to switch this by hotkey, some require you to go into settings, which will obviously be difficult as you cant see the screen.

You could try and remember the keystrokes to get to control panel>display settings and then move the window with the cursor to the new monitor perhaps?

[glocko]

I can see enough of the screen for it to be useable, i've just lost the bottom right quarter

[_Deano]

right click on the area of the desktop that you can see and choose the properties option (at the bottom of the box that appeared) you can then lower the resolutions to something like 1024x768 so everything should be on the LCD screen that is connected to your laptop.

[john_p]

Do you have a button on the keyboard that selects between displays? Fn-F5 or something on my Dell.
This switches between

"LCD only"
"External only"
"LCD and External"

it might be that windows is spreading the desktop across both monitors when it is in "LCD and External" mode