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My primary monitor is monitor 2

Marty81Marty81 Registered User regular
edited November 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm running XP with 2 monitors. I want my primary monitor to be monitor number 1, because some programs pop up windows on monitor 1 instead of the primary monitor. How do I change this?

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  • meekermeeker Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Switch your cables?

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  • Marty81Marty81 Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Can't. Monitor 1 is a TV and Monitor 2 is an actual computer monitor.

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  • embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I think the quickest way to remedy this is to unplug the TV, reboot, go to the display properties, then plug in the TV and "enable" it. Then reboot to make sure that it stays.

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  • Food?Food? Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Download UltraMon, it'll let you switch the monitors around.

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  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    can't you just change that through display settings?

    properties>>settings

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  • saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Display settings for the win. Just change the "use this device as my primary monitor" settings.

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  • Marty81Marty81 Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    saint2e wrote: »
    Display settings for the win. Just change the "use this device as my primary monitor" settings.

    No, that doesn't work. Look. I want to change the 2 into a 1.

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    I haven't tried embrik's solution yet, but I ran into this once before and I know there's a solution from within XP. I remember it being really bizarre, though.

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  • shadowaneshadowane Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Can you just change which device is the primary monitor? You just need to unselect the first monitor to change them.

    edit: Oh nevermind you already have that set. Weird. Sorry.

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  • RNEMESiS42RNEMESiS42 Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    I had the same problem when I was setting up two monitors. I really don't remember how I fixed it, other than I disabled/enabled the monitors, and unplugged them a few times until I could get them to stay!

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2007
    There's an option in the catalyst control center for ATI cards where you can switch monitors around. Is there not an equivilant function in whatever geforce's answer to the CCC is?

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