Extended (2 monitors) Display Watching Movies

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Situation:
- I have a laptop that outputs HDMI / VGA
- I output my laptop to my TV via HDMI
- Everything works perfectly fine

Problem:
- I set my laptop's output to my tv to "extend"
- I have an extended desktop where I can browse a website on the laptop screen then use photoshop on my TV
- I drag the Windows Media Player window from my laptop across to the right into my TV's screen.
- I did this so I can browse websites and at the same time watch a DVD.
- When I go to "full screen" on Windows Media Player, it only fullscreens on my laptop and not on my TV.
- how do I make Windows Media Player fullscreen in the TV instead of my laptop?

Extra Information:
- My tv is a Flat-Panel TV, Plasma
- I used to be able to watch movies using Windows Media Player on the TV and browse websites on the laptop.
- I reformatted computer and now it doesnt work as it used to.
- I also used VLC and it doesn't work properly

My system:
- Look at signature for more info
- I use NVIDIA Forceware the latest version
- I tried setting the "primary" display to my TV and it still does the same thing.

Cliff Recap Goal:
- I want to be able to watch movies on my FLAT-PANEL TV in fullscreen and leave my laptop unoccupied so I can browse websites and stuff.

My problem is that when I do set the TV to "primary" it will have the start taskbar and stuff on the TV and my laptop is empty (unless I drag some applications to the laptop.

Before I had my taskbar and applications in my laptop screen and the TV screen is full of items that I can just drag the movie to the TV and it will full screen there.
 
Does using the Ctrl+Enter method allow for full screen? It could be a limitation of the Mobile GFX card as well. It might not be able to output to a TV like that in full screen mode. You may have to just go with Maximized mode.
 
Does using the Ctrl+Enter method allow for full screen? It could be a limitation of the Mobile GFX card as well. It might not be able to output to a TV like that in full screen mode. You may have to just go with Maximized mode.
Well before I was able to to go full screen on my TV and browse website on my laptop. Ever since I reformatted my computer and reinstalled everything, its been doing this.

I am also on the latest graphics software.
 
Could be a bug with the newest drivers. Have you tried to install the older set that you were using previously to see if it works with those?
 
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