Devang Gandhi

I was pretty annoyed with my computer which would lockdown if left idle for 10 minutes, and then ask for the password to log back in. This behavior is actually caused by the screensaver settings. Right click on the desktop, select Personalize, select Screen Saver from the next screen. In the Screen Saver Settings windows that appears deselect the checkbox that says “On Resume, Display logon Screen”. This should fix it.

I had tried to hook up two monitors to my Vista machine but it didn’t work. My computer has just one DVI port so I am using a Y DVI splitter. I tried a couple different ideas that I could find online but still no solution.

I figured the problem is with the display card since it would not even detect that there were two monitors connected to the computer and would just use the monitor connected to the primary end of the Y splitter. So I go to Control Panel -> Device Manager -> Display Adapters -> right click on my Display Adapters -> click Update Driver Software. I selected the option to let the computer “Search automatically for updated driver software“. Turns out the display adapter driver was outdated and the computer updated it. I restarted the machine and it detected both the monitors. Now I have nice dual display set up.

A nice quote that fits here: “People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can’t do.”