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Multiple monitors: Windows moving around (sometimes) after waking monitors
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I've read several solutions to this problem, all of which seem to involve looking for a key in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Configuration, ...
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ASUS PA328Q 4K monitor Windows and DisplayPort issue
I have an ASUS PA328Q 4K monitor plugged onto the DisplayPort output of an MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4G. The monitor is configured to use DisplayPort 1.2. I am running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. The ...
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DisplayPort Link Failure after monitor sleep?
I just added a 3rd monitor to my Windows 7 64-bit computer. When the monitor goes to sleep, it won't wake up. The other two monitors wake up fine (connected via hdmi and DVI).
The new monitor I ...
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Windows 10 - Disable third monitor automatically when it's powered off
I have three monitor outputs from my video card: monitor 1, monitor 2, and a projector.
The Windows display settings looks like this:
If the projector is turned off, and I move my mouse to the right ...
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Turning off/on monitor reduces non-maximized window sizes?
I believe this is a very strange problem, but i just switched back to PC from Mac after nearly 20 years so I'm certainly no expert with Windows 7 yet.
My new computer has a Gigabyte HD 6970 GPU ...
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GeForce GTX 980 Ti reverts to single monitor on wake up
I'm running an up to date NVIDIA version 8.1.790.0, on Windows 10, with an EVGA GTX 980 Ti driving two ASUS 4k monitors through DisplayPort.
All works well until the system goes to power save if I ...
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Properly locking Windows 10 taskbar to the proper monitor
So I've been struggling with this issue for quite a while. At first I thought it was a combination of DisplayPort and an HDMI monitor, but now that I have 2 monitors with a DisplayPort the issue ...
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How to stop Windows 10 renaming audio devices?
I have two audio devices and use a bat file with 'nircmd' to change what audio device (and monitor) to use as default. This so I can change from TV (AV Receiver over HDMI) to Monitor (Mainboard Audio ...
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Windows keeps rearraging even if the other display is off
I'm using Windows 10 connected to a computer monitor with DisplayPort and a Samsung TV with HDMI.
I have the monitor as the second screen (id=2) and the TV as the first one (id=1).
Most of the time I ...
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Put one (displayport) monitor to sleep on a multi-monitor system WITHOUT disabling it
I have Windows 7 and an NVIDIA GTX 980 video card. As you know DisplayPort has this stupid autodetect feature which cannot be disabled in the OS, where when you turn a DisplayPort screen off, it ...
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Windows 7, GTX 750, Dell 2408WFP: powering off display disconnects the display from the card
I have the following monitors attached to my EVGA GeForce GTX 750 (2 GB):
Dell 2408WFP connected via DisplayPort (monitor 1)
Dell 2408WFP connected via HDMI (monitor 2)
Dell 2007FP connected via DVI-...
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RealVNC: remote screen resolution changes when switching monitor off
I am using RealVNC at work to connect to a remote PC. When not working on that PC directly, I prefer to keep the monitor off. However when the monitor is off, RealVNC Server reduces to reduce the ...
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Is there some way to prevent windows from realizing I've disconnected displays [duplicate]
I like arranging my windows in specific layouts but whenever my monitors go to sleep/turn off Windows10 rearranges my windows automatically.
Is there some way to make Windows10 think those monitors ...
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Monitors swapping and windows moving on PC wakeup
I just got a new monitor and set it up without issue accept for when the computer sleeps, the tabs get shuffled and the pc seems to mix up which monitor is which. The old monitors are the exact same ...
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Application windows all move to main display after screens turn back on
Environment: Windows 10 Pro 20H2 x64 running on MacBook Pro 2019 (bare metal), with an LG 4k monitor, each connected to a CalDigit T3 Plus dock. MBP graphics card is AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16. AMD ...
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