Dual Monitor troubles...

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Dual Monitor troubles...

#1 Posted by RobotSquad (123 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

I keep opening a program and it opens on the left of my monitor even tho I don't have the dual monitors plugged in anymore. Is there any way I can fix it without plugging my monitor in again and going through all that trouble of getting it out of another room?

#2 Posted by RobotSquad (123 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

#3 Posted by RawknRo11a (376 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

most programs (games, ect..) will open in the Primary monitor. I guess make sure the one thats still plugged in is set as the Primary Display? Seems weird that it would do that without the other monitor plugged in...

#4 Posted by OfficeGamer (1024 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

Right click on your desktop -> screen resolution -> disable the monitor you're no longer using (probably number 2)

#5 Posted by RobotSquad (123 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

There is only one and its my main monitor

#6 Edited by OfficeGamer (1024 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

@RobotSquad said:

There is only one and its my main monitor

So you have only one monitor connected, and only that monitor appears in the Screen Resolution window, and that monitor is set to primary, and YET the program you open appears open in the taskbar below but the window itself is presumably on the other monitor (which means you can't see it)?

Tried restarting?

#7 Posted by Wacomole (732 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

@RobotSquad:

If a program that you open ever shows on your taskbar but the window is not on your viewable monitor, there's a handy keyboard shortcut that's worth remembering...

Highlight the Program in the Taskbar and press - WindowsKey + Shift + Left or Right Arrow

Easy way to remember it is that you want to SHIFT the WINDOW to your main monitor.

Hope that helps.

#8 Posted by RawknRo11a (376 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

@MoleyUK: Thanks duder! Somehow I didn't know about that shortcut!

#9 Posted by RobotSquad (123 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

It didn't work tho </3 lol

#10 Posted by Insectecutor (1126 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

Win + P.

#11 Posted by RobotSquad (123 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

#12 Posted by RobotSquad (123 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

this is returning from the left

#13 Posted by Insectecutor (1126 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

Plug your current monitor into the other socket on the card.

#14 Posted by Snail (7824 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

@RobotSquad: What the heck is that image?

Also, are you using any double-monitor optimization software like DisplayFusion?

#15 Posted by Sinusoidal (312 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

I always alt-space-m, then an arrow key, then move mouse without clicking to get an errant window on the correct monitor. It doesn't work if the window is maximized.

#16 Posted by RobotSquad (123 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

No i'm not using any double monitor software

#17 Posted by WEB_War4 (103 posts) - 3 months, 9 days ago

The alt space m mention is how you moved stuff in older versions of windows when you couldn't get the mouse on it

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