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I have an extra monitor hooked to my laptop with XP Pro they have been showing identical I recently had to reinstall XP before that I also used the TV as a third monitor using an S cable (showing no icons) it showed as the second monitor and both...

I have an extra monitor hooked to my laptop with XP Pro they have been showing identical I recently had to reinstall XP before that I also used the TV as a third monitor using an S cable (showing no icons) it showed as the second monitor and both the laptop and the second monitor as the first monitor (watching movies on #2 and playing games and surfing the net on the #1 with the laptop also #1 over on my desk) after reinstalling XP I could not get the third monitor back I was looking at my Display Properties and wondered what “Extend my Windows desktop into this monitor” would do all icons disappeared on my now #2 monitor so I unchecked that option and applied then I got a black screen it will go back to no icons but not back to the same as main screen I tried restoring to a few days ago did nothing even said no changes were made I would love to have all 3 back but would like to at least get both of the actual screens showing icons