if you have a Dell docking station and a Dell laptop.
Use Fn-F8 to go to dual monitor mode - this is trivial - but this isn't what most people want because the laptop screen is so small and so high-res that 1400x1050 is very hard on the eyes. You want to connect two external LCD monitors to your docking station and then get 2560x1024 using the two of them:
1) Connect one monitor to the VGA connector, the other to the DVI connector
2) Use Fn-F8 to go to dual monitor mode - only one LCD will be used and the laptop screen will be used as the second display
3) Close the laptop. The system will go into standby mode and the displays will go blank.
4) Press the power button on the DOCKING STATION. There are two buttons that the rest of the world has never noticed since the last ice age.
5) The system will now use both monitors.
Wish I had got this with my Google search "how to do dual monitor using a docking station VGA DVI". But I didn't.
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