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Monitor / Display Issues After Windows 10 Upgrade


Before proceeding... it goes without saying to make sure you have visited the website of the manufacture of the monitor(s) in question and be sure you are using the most update to date Windows driver for your monitors. If not, download and install.
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Really digging the new Windows 10 upgrade, which I have performed on several devices thus far... laptops, tablets (even the $99.00 Winbooks) and domain attached computers (non-enterprise licensed machines).

But...

With just a few of the upgrades, I ran into a couple of the following issues relating to Display...

- External monitors no longer worked.
- Two external monitors presented the same display (mirrored), when I wanted to actually extend the display across both of them.  There were no options to make the changes I needed.

Right clicking on the desktop and going to Display Settings or Personalize did not help. Nor did Windows see the extra monitor(s).

While right clicking on the desktop to get to the display properties, I noticed a couple of things missing which might also be a problem for you...  The "Graphics Properties..." and "Graphic Options" you see below were missing.


usually, when the display settings for Windows can't help you, you can count on these two options to assist. But mine were gone. If your's are missing, you will need to re-install igfxcpl.cpl and update your Intel display drivers.  

This can be done by going to the Intel Download Center
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/ and obtaining the Windows 10 drivers (which will do all the above including putting back the Graphics options on your desktop).




When you get there, select "Graphic Drivers" under the first option and "Laptop" or "Desktop" depending type of device for the second.













The 3rd option depends on your graphics card. If you don't readily know the answer for this choice, you can either "Google" the specs for the computer you are working on and look for any description pertaining to graphics or display, or you may have a sticker on your computer which tells you the type of graphics card you have installed.





Only thing left is to download, unzip... and run the setup.exe program.   Even though running it may immediately fix your issue, go ahead and perform the suggested reboot.

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