Re: System Prefs/Dual Monitor conundrum

" i can't get my dual display situation back as I mistakenly rearranged my monitors so the controls are on the other monitor, so i don't have access to the system pref.. is there any way to reset a monitor to factory spec? Or did I kill it? "

I assume you mean you set your menu bar to the other monitor so you can't access any of your main control panels.

Hm, try detaching the 17" monitor, rebooting (the controls should default back to the laptop) and then fiddling with the settings.

If that doesn't do it, you could also try deleting the system preferences plist file in your user directory, which may default all your other settings, but that should reset the screen to defaults (I would assume that on a laptop, the default is always its own screen).

There's probably other ways as well, but I can't recall off the top of my head. This happened to me once a while back, but I don't remember exactly what I did to fix it. I think deleting the preferences did the trick.

One would think there is an easy key combo or similar to revert those settings...maybe someone out there knows...