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You’ve loaded a presentation onto your laptop computer, and now you’d like to mirror the laptop LCD screen to the projector in the conference room. Which of these options would be the best way to accomplish this?

A) Modify the Windows display driver to use an external display as primary

B) Use Windows Remote Desktop to redirect the screen to the projector

C) Turn the laptop off, connect the projector, and restart the laptop

D) Toggle the laptop’s Fn key for directing the video output

E) Click. Click click. Wait. Click. Wait. Click click click. Turn the laptop screen to the audience.


The answer: D) Toggle the laptop’s Fn key for directing the video output

Most laptops have a toggle key that allows you to mirror or add a separate video output, which allows you to start your presentation on the projector in just a few seconds.

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