Using Only External Monitor with MacBook Pro Closed on Windows XP
In Leopard, you can use only your external monitor for display by closing the MacBook Pro lid to put it to sleep, and then click on the connected mouse or keyboard to wake it up. When the notebook wakes up, only the external display will used, and the notebook screen will stay off.
In Windows, the default behavior does not seem to work. The problem I’m having is that after waking up the MacBook Pro, its screen is still on even when the lid is closed.
I just found a solution today. The fix is to use the NVidia nView Desktop Manager installed with BootCamp.
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Go to Start -> Control Panel -> NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager
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In the Desktop Management tab, click Enable to enable the nView Desktop Manager.
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Click OK. You should see a small NVidia icon in your taskbar notification area (lower right corner of your screen).
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Right click on the NVidia icon in the taskbar notification area, and then select nView Display Settings -> Single display -> <Your external monitor name>.
After setting to Single display on your external monitor, Windows XP should display everything in the external screen and turns the MacBook Pro screen off.
You can now close the MacBook Pro lid (which will put it to sleep), and then click your external mouse to wake it up again to get the behavior like Leopard.
