When i close my laptop: NVIDIA Display Settings are not available

[Rob D]

Alban,

Thank you for your reply. leavinga side what happens immediately after I disable teh onboard graphics card, if I rebooot the machine this is the situation I end up in (attached.) Is it (a) the onboard card has been disabled and the NVIDIA card is being used by everything, (b) the onboard card has been disabled but the NVIDIA card still isnt being used: the Dell (DisplayLink) adapter software is separate to bothy cards, or (c) Task manager is incorrect and the onboard GPU isnt in fact disabled?

Im hoping its (a), in which case it doesnt matter that teh NVIDIA control panel doesnt work because I dont really need it any more?

Thanks again for your help,

Rob