left side assignment of dual screen desktop

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Marc Antheunis

does anyone know how to retain a dual screen desktop setup IF the secondary
screen is to the left of the primary one?

after reboot vista forgets this setting
but also when you lock the desktop and unlock it you see vista switching the
secondary screen from the left to the right
so doesn't vista like left side secondary screens or what <g>
anyway this used to work perfectly but all of a sudden this behaviour broke
(maybe some update slipped in?)

so if you know something that would defenately persist my duals screen setup
it would make my day

tia,
marc
 
You could swap the physical connections from your video card(s) and see if
that will retain your settings.
 
Marc Antheunis said:
does anyone know how to retain a dual screen desktop setup IF the
secondary screen is to the left of the primary one?

after reboot vista forgets this setting
but also when you lock the desktop and unlock it you see vista switching
the secondary screen from the left to the right
so doesn't vista like left side secondary screens or what <g>
anyway this used to work perfectly but all of a sudden this behaviour
broke (maybe some update slipped in?)

so if you know something that would defenately persist my duals screen
setup it would make my day
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I'm not having any problems with my screens. Try using UltraMon.

www.ultramon.com

If you right click the system tray ultramon icon and go to Display Settings,
you can choose which monitor is to be primary, but I am not sure if this is
just another interface to the same setting in the standard Windows Display
Properties.

ss.
 
it's a laptop indeed...
i'm almost sure this must be a corrupt registry setting...
 
I'm going to guess here - but is it a NVidia graphics card in the
laptop? I have a Dell Preceision M60 which has an NVidia card and in
Vista and XP I also see that the monitor will always end up (after
reboot) as on the right, even if I set it left.

I've heard others NVidia users having this problem and I just assume
it's an NVidia driver thing. Could be wrong - just haven't heard an ATI
user, for example, complaining about this.

D
 
SS

There are still some issues using UltraMon on Vista. with the latest 2.7.1
release.

The mirroring feature is not available.
Aero does not display the UM buttons.
Using a monitor set to the left of the primary, messes up the wallpaper.
UM taskbar does not match the Vista taskbars.

The new version (3.0) should be released within a week or so and this will
fix all of these problems in Vista. :)

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User
 
Ronnie Vernon MVP said:
SS

There are still some issues using UltraMon on Vista. with the latest 2.7.1
release.

The mirroring feature is not available.
Aero does not display the UM buttons.
Using a monitor set to the left of the primary, messes up the wallpaper.
UM taskbar does not match the Vista taskbars.

The new version (3.0) should be released within a week or so and this will
fix all of these problems in Vista. :)
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Oh, that's good news. How did you hear about that? The long awaited beta
doesn't seem to be out yet? I've been waiting so long for v3 that I had
given up on it ever coming out.

ss.
 
it is
i have a M90
but it used to run just fine
now that i think of it, i think i recall a windows update for the video
driver...
 
I talked to one of their support people recently, and she said that the
target date for v3 is the first quarter 07, but they are pushing hard for it
being available when Vista is released on the 30th.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User
 
I had the same problem. Disabling the Windows Event Logging service stopped
the problem. Right click the computer, select manage, open the services and
applications, open the services snap in, find "Windows Event Log", right
click, select properties, select disable. Restart and see if this fix helped.
 
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