Showing the same output on both PC screen and TV at the same time

[Freeman]

It was always possibly in XP to display exactly the same on two screens at the same time.

Basically I want to be able to turn my TV on and watch a film on it (PC is attached to the TV using a VGA cable).

Is there any way to do this in Vista, I can only find the option to extend the desktop.

Thanks.

 

[Freeman]

It will clone but only if the res is the same on both screens, not too common so not the best solution. Whats wrong with extend? Just drag the video player over to the second screen and maximise.

It's so I can watch films on my TV from my computer. Extend is very inconvenient when I don'#t have the television switched on because I can lose documents if I drag them to the left.

I tried cloning but as people have said it defaults to the monitor with the lowest resolution, which sucks.

Is there any other way I can easily do this while mainting my monitors resolution?