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Karl E. Peterson
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      12-11-2009
I just noticed today that the copy of FrontPage 2003 I installed in an
XP Mode VM is restricted to the primary monitor (#1) on a dual-monitor
system. If I try dragging it over to the secondary (#2) monitor, it
just disappears off the edge never appearing at all on #2, and the drag
is stopped when the cursor hits the edge of #1. Using a utility like
UltraMon makes no difference at all, as it doesn't even see the virtual
application.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks... Karl

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Karl E. Peterson
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      12-11-2009
Karl E. Peterson was thinking very hard :
> I just noticed today that the copy of FrontPage 2003 I installed in an XP
> Mode VM is restricted to the primary monitor (#1) on a dual-monitor system.
> If I try dragging it over to the secondary (#2) monitor, it just disappears
> off the edge never appearing at all on #2, and the drag is stopped when the
> cursor hits the edge of #1. Using a utility like UltraMon makes no
> difference at all, as it doesn't even see the virtual application.
>
> Any thoughts or ideas?


Classic. Post, then immediately "discover" the answer.

I had the monitors configured like this:

#2 #1

Turns out, they needed to be like this:

#1 #2

Dumb! But, whatever. Can anyone fathom a reason why the brilliant
folks at MSFT apparently can't cope with negative screen coordinates?

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David Wilkinson
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      12-12-2009
Karl E. Peterson wrote:
> Dumb! But, whatever. Can anyone fathom a reason why the brilliant
> folks at MSFT apparently can't cope with negative screen coordinates?


Dunno. But VMWare Workstation is the same -- the primary monitor must be on the
left.

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