Changing Monitor Identities

Wondering if anyone knows how to change Monitor Identities? That is, change
the monitor Windows picks as Monitor 2 to Monitor 1.

just switch the cables in the back
of the pc!

you can change the positions on the display properties windows by dragging
the monitor icons, but that will not change the numbers... switch the cables
in the back
of the pc.


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"Windows Novice" <Windows > wrote in message
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> Wondering if anyone knows how to change Monitor Identities? That is,
> change
> the monitor Windows picks as Monitor 2 to Monitor 1.

My Nvidia Control Panel lets me select which monitor I want as primary.


"Windows Novice" <Windows > wrote in message
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> Wondering if anyone knows how to change Monitor Identities? That is,
> change
> the monitor Windows picks as Monitor 2 to Monitor 1.

You can't change primary and secondary monitors unless your display adapter
drivers let you ... but you can go into display properties and drag monitor
#1 onto the other side of monitor #2 and reverse which one is on the right
and which one is on the left with any dual-display card.

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"Windows Novice" <Windows > wrote in message
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> Wondering if anyone knows how to change Monitor Identities? That is,
> change
> the monitor Windows picks as Monitor 2 to Monitor 1.

"Windows Novice" <Windows > wrote in message
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> Wondering if anyone knows how to change Monitor Identities? That is,
> change
> the monitor Windows picks as Monitor 2 to Monitor 1.



UltraMon lets you do this on the fly, from the system tray. It also gives
you other very useful things like a Taskbar on the second monitor. The
current v3 beta seems to run indefinitely.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

ss.

shareware...

but good.. I use it all the time


"Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
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> "Windows Novice" <Windows > wrote in
> message news:422790D7-B1D6-4904-8338-...
>> Wondering if anyone knows how to change Monitor Identities? That is,
>> change
>> the monitor Windows picks as Monitor 2 to Monitor 1.
>
>
>
> UltraMon lets you do this on the fly, from the system tray. It also gives
> you other very useful things like a Taskbar on the second monitor. The
> current v3 beta seems to run indefinitely.
>
> http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
>
> ss.

I just plugged my hp pavilion dv9000 into its expansion base, and th
machine decided that the external was monitor 1 and the laptop wa
monitor 2! Anyone know how I can get this back to normal? If it mean
anything, I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

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In display settings, can you specify which monitor is #1?

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"calibansfolly" <> wrote in message
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> I just plugged my hp pavilion dv9000 into its expansion base, and the
> machine decided that the external was monitor 1 and the laptop was
> monitor 2! Anyone know how I can get this back to normal? If it means
> anything, I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS.
>
>
> --
> calibansfolly

No, unfortunately.

I gave in and just changed which was the primary and adjusted the
resolutions and the positions so everything looks right and behaves
well. The compulsive part of me is still kind of bothered that when I
identify monitors, the laptop is number 2, and the external is number
1... Oh well.


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calibansfolly;701942 Wrote:
> No, unfortunately
>
> I gave in and just changed which was the primary and adjusted th
> resolutions and the positions so everything looks right and behave
> well. The compulsive part of me is still kind of bothered that when
> identify monitors, the laptop is number 2, and the external is numbe
> 1... Oh well

I have an identical setup and have the same problem. It annoys m
because most of the time when I dock the laptop Vista decides th
external monitor is my primary and moves my taskbar & sidebar and I hav
to move everything back

I would think there is a buried registry key that defines monito
identities

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