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When I end task on a full-screen app, usually a game, or when it crashes to desktop, the monitor positions and orientations reset to default. This is getting old, fast. Is there a simple way to save and restore monitor positions and orientations in a hurry?

Note: I submitted feedback on this both in the beta and RC, both were closed as "not reproducible".

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What is the game? And is it truly reseting, or is the game leaving the video adapter in a bad state (more likely)? – Avery Payne Jul 16 '09 at 5:53
What do you mean by position and orientation? Do you have your monitor at a 90* angle? – Chris Thompson Jul 16 '09 at 5:54
I'm not surprised they were closed, I wouldn't be able to reproduce that behaviour myself and have not noticed any problems like this so far. What monitors? What game? What orientations? What graphics card? – Stefan Thyberg Jul 16 '09 at 11:24
@Avery: Happens on multiple games (starcraft, half life 2, supreme commander, NES Emulators - Anything.) Not sure how it happens; looks like a normal video mode switch. Event logs show no relevant detail. @Chris: Yes, two of the six are in Portrait mode. Position means physical location relative to each other. @Stefan: Two Dells, an HP, two Westinghouses, and a Viewsonic. 2 portrait, 4 landscape. Three ATI Radeon X1650 Pro's. – tsilb Jul 16 '09 at 21:40
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Have you tried checking if there are newer ATI video drivers available for Windows 7? The orientation issue could be driver related.

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Have updated to both the newest Windows Update driver as well as the newest one at ati.amd.com. Both gave me video problems so I reverted. – tsilb Jul 31 '09 at 21:52
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Seems to be a bug in Windows they aren't willing to allocate the resources to fix. Adding an answer so I can accept it.

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