I had this problem recently. My display driver was corrupted and system re-installed it. So there were two instances of the driver listed in the device manager. Deleted both and reinstalled from CD, rebooted and the phantom is gone.
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I just reformatted my HD and successfully reinstalled XP SP3. Everything works great, but for some inexplicable reason the display properties panel shows, and lists, a 'phantom' secondary monitor that doesn't exist and has never existed. I know I can simply ignore it, but would prefer to make it go away...how do I get it off the list, and make this 'phantom' 'monitor 2' icon disappear from the drag window? My NVIDIA Cpanel is specifically set to NOT use multiple monitors.

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