Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Dual Monitor Config Gets Reset

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A while back I wrote about how to change the placement of your Dual-Monitor configuration in Windows.

Windows defaults to you having a 2nd monitor on the right side of your primary display.  If you use the feature to extend your desktop to the new monitor, this can be a drag if your monitor is on the left side of your primary monitor.

To fix this, simply check your display properties... <Click to Read More>

A friend of mine recently noted that this works, but every time he undocks his laptop, then redocks his laptop, the configuration reverts back to the original setting.  I had also run into this.  The solution for me was to download and install an updated version of my laptop video drivers. 

If you find that your dual monitor config is changing mysteriously on you, try to find an updated version of your video drivers.  At a minimum, it should not make the problem any worse.  At best, your problem is solved!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you have an thinkpad that is no problem.

There is a software called Thinkvantage Presentation Manager, in that software you can have different profiles for different thngs you do, docked, undocked, an presentation and so on....

And you can preset that everytime you dock the computer it uses the profile you want for your office.

Anonymous said...

The issue was on a Latitude D620.

Upgrading the video driver fixed the problem.

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