primary monitor

If you've ever had the pleasure—or, more accurately, the bafflingly infuriating misfortune—of right-clicking an item in Windows 11 on your primary display only to watch the context menu magically whisk itself over to your secondary monitor, then congratulations: you have entered the elite ranks...

I have 2 monitors, My primary monitor is connected via a display port and the other one is HDMI. My primary is a 114hrz 21" I think? While my secondary is 60hrz 16". They have been working as a dual display when suddenly my secondary stopped working and when I turn it on it goes to HDMi and says...

I would like to set my primary monitor to my tv but my taskbar on the laptop screen, is this possible? I would like to do this because I want to play games on fullscreen on the tv but i like having the taskbar on the laptop screen. Thanks -Elliot

Hello, I have a 3 monitor setup with extended displays. However, when I change windows by using the TaskBar to a window that is not on my main display, it periodically repositions the window to whatever the main display is set at (changes screens). I've tried changing which monitor is the...

I cannot get "Active Desktop Calendar" to play nicely with multiple monitor apps when dual monitors are spanned by a single wallpaper. This appears to be a problem with all the desktop calendar apps that I can find. I am now trying to use the Win7 Display Settings to achieve this end. So far...

Hi, My laptop screen is broken. I can't see anything through it. However I am able to connect it to my tv, and it works through it. I plan on using it as a media player now. The problem is that I can only get it to work with the laptop lid closed. As soon as I open the laptop lid, it reverts...

Hello. I have two Planar touchscreen monitors. Only the primary monitor responds to touch. The secondary monitor only responds to the mouse. If I switch which monitor is primary, that monitor responds to touch and the other one will only respond to the mouse. So, the issue is that only the...

I have my computer hooked up to my monitor and my TV. What I want to know is, is there anyway to make it so when I click a shortcut on one desktop it opens on that same desktop. For example let's say I have a Firefox shortcut on my monitor desktop and another Firefox shortcut on my TV desktop...

I have Win7 x64 setup with dual monitors. I want the monitor on the left to be my primary monitor, and the one on the right to be secondary. When I start the computer, Win7 wants the monitor on the right to be the primary. I've tried swapping the connection on the video card, but it seems...

Hello I am used to using a dual screen setup with my asus z96j laptop. I have a secondary viewsonic display attached to my vga port. After installing windows 7 i have noticed, that after my main screen is turned off (such as when my computer goes to sleep, or when the lid is closed) it would...

Hello All, I have 3 monitors, the middle one is set as my primary monitor and the 2 at each side are extended desktops. All my icon's sit on the middle monitor including my start menu as it's set to the primary monitor. My problem is that when I download anything to desktop it doesn't download...

Is there anyway to get Clamshell mode to work on my Macbook with Windows 7? Everytime I boot up, I have to manually set my external monitor to my primary display, which is kind of pain since my normal display is completely busted.

Windows 7 b7100, 64-bit version. I guess I should start by stating that I have dual monitors; one a 1680x1050 22" and the other a 1280x1024 17", DVI and VGA connected, respectively. Now Win7 detects the 22" as the primary display (which is how I want it,) but when I open Mozilla Firefox, it...

So I have a just setup a multi monitor display, works all good. But I was interested to find out how you set up the second monitor to start a screensaver, or go to sleep, or if this is even possible, while having the primary monitor still active. Right so if Im playing a game say, the secound...