I was doing multimedia at church last night - which right now means just projecting song words during worship. My software of choice is OpenSong, which is open source software written specifically for churches (plus it imports music directly from CCLI but until they get it working in South Africa we're stuck in the 3rd world). Sarah lent me her laptop for the service, which was great. I had lots of time pressure since we only arrived back from our weekend in the Berg at 5, and church started at 7. I got there at 10 to 7; Merv helped set up the projector (thanks Merv!!!) and Sarah Andrews helped me add in the songs that weren't already there.

Luckily I was working on a PC running Windows XP.

For some reason the PC didn't pick up the projector plugged into it. Weird. Strange. Merv's simple solution was to reboot the PC with the projector plugged in. Simple enough. (Unfortunately the service had already started and I was trying to get this working...as the first worship song started).

So I rebooted. Time was ticking. 2 minutes later I logged in, but dual screen still didn't work. Luckily Frank came up to me and showed me the simple process of getting dual screen working. All I had to do was press Function-F5 (or F3 or F8 - I'm not really sure which) then right-click on the desktop, go to properties, and click on the displays tab. Then I had to select the second screen, click "extend my Windows desktop onto this display" and it'll work. Which it did.

So simple - why didn't I think of that?!

And so we were good to go. My, how I laugh at my friends who use Macs. All they have to do is plug in the projector and it works. They're funny and obviously not as clever as they think they are.

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