I use my Toshiba Satellite laptop a lot, HDMI plugged into my 42" plasma screen TV in the living room, running fences, with no problems. I don't turn off fences.

Laptop res is 1600 x 900. I'm pretty sure the TV res is 1080. I do leave both screens on.

Also, I forgot to mention that I work on a lesser priviledged account if that accounts for anything (extra security measure against viruses).

I posted an eventviewer log earlier. What do you supposed the crossthread deadlock means?

I never tried fences 1. What I meant by all fences earlier was all versions of fences 2.

I think I maybe narrowed it down to what it is.

When I looked up cross thread deadlock, I saw something that said may not have enough priviledges.

So I logged on to my master account and made 3 fences. And stuck the few icons I had on the desktop in them. Then I plugged it up with hdmi. It worked fine.

So, the problem could be:

-too many icons

-doesn't work properly on lesser priviledged accounts. being restricted/held back.

I believe I will go on and say that it is the 2nd one considering ya'll say it works fine for ya'll and I doubt that ya'll are on a non-admin account.

More like Norton by itself will annihilate your system

Nah, like I said earlier they've all been working fine together and I've already disable a feature in one of them that did lock the system so everything has been fine for 10+ years. I'm good, but thanks for your concern.