Hilton Giesenow's Jumbled Mind

Drives me crazy too...

I'd love to know if you find a fix...

mike@prachar.com

Drives me crazy too...

I'd love to know if you find a fix...

mike@prachar.com

I have the same problem: LT screen on the left and my LCD (with task bar) on the right. Every time I unlock it switches the LT screen to the right.

What's worse, it switches the LCD screen's refresh rate to 85 Hertz which is out of range. I have to bring up the display settings box on the blank screen and then use the keyboard to drag it to the LT screen and fix everything. I don't lock my computer very much anymore.

I would love to know how to tell Vista to not check the screens on unlock.

A suggestion, buy a little application called UltraMon, it gives you taskbars on all monitors if you want. Works well with Vista too.  :)

Hi,

I have the same Problem, any Solution??

anthony.planz@gmail.com

Dido - I have a laptop with a 1920x1200 display.  I have an external LCD panel with 1920x1200 display, placed to the left of the laptop.  I want the external display to the be the primary display as well.  Every time I login or unlock the screen, the primary display is moved back to the laptop screen and the LCD panel is positioned within Vista as being to the right.

Quite annoying.  However, it is good to know I am not alone.

I have the same problem. I want my external monitor to appear on top of my laptop LCD, but it always moves to the right.

David

I have the same problem; laptop on the left (secondary)and LCD (primary) on the right.  Putting a taskbar on each screen won't solve the problem, because Vista switches the order of monitors, so the cursor doesn't flow from left to right correctly.

I can't believe that this made it through testing.  

sigh.

I found an interesting post on MSFT Communities; there are two workarounds to this problem:

www.microsoft.com/.../default.aspx

Same issue here, this is beyond annoying!

My laptop has an NVIDIA graphic driver.  I found this permanent solution for my system:

1. Access the NVIDIA Control Panel (Right-click in the desktop, but you can also go via the regular Control Panel.)

2. Choose disply -> Change display configuration

3. Under "1. Choose the nView display mode to use" choose "Configured independently from each other"

4. Under "2. Select the displays you would like to use" choose the setup you want. I selected "Samsung + Laptop Display."  Because the Samsung (external monitor) is listed first, it is primary.  If you want the laptop as primary, select the opposite.

On the menu to the left you can make other adustments, such as to the display resolution.

Disable TMM in the Task Scheduler and stop the task.  I wrote a post about it on my site.  It was terribly annoying.  It would wipe all my windows to a single monitor and it got to point that multiple monitors were pretty much pointless.

www.revfry.com/.../vista-and-screen-refreshing-at-unlock

I've been having the left-screen problem for a long time now as well.  I just disabled TMM and it didnt' help.  Now I have to figure out how to turn TMM back on.  Great.  

i used to have the problem with it switching which side it was on.  i noticed that it started after some people would do updates through windows update.  well i uninstalled the driver. downloaded the latest driver for the graphics card. restarted the computer and installed the new driver. i then walked through the steps in vista to connect to an external display. (by right-clicking on the desk top and clicking personalize... then on the left hand side panel look for connect to external display.)

What can you do about the screen going blank (black) then reporting an error and then it corrects itself.  Very annoying when your in the middle of something.