Laptop to Monitor

[wendabenda]

Hopefully I can explain my issue. I have a laptop with a cord that attaches from it to the back of a Monitor. I used to be able to turn my Monitor on and shake my mouse and my screen comes on and I get right to work. NOW....Everytime I turn my monitor on, it goes staright to blank blue screen. So instead, I have to open up my laptop and push the power button and wait for my laptop to come alive and once the screen saver shows...I can close the lid and it will pop up on my Monitor. THEN...I can get to work.

Does anyone know how I can set it back so I just turn on my Monitor, shake my mouse and Viola..I'm back to the grind?

[DaveLembke]

Thinking if you use sleep or hibernate mode it will keep the last display preference. This wont help though if the laptop is sometimes used as a laptop vs a desktop in which the last use of it was as a laptop with its own display only.