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Title: Multiple Monitors, Win10, Nvidia - Windows/Apps moving to wrong monitor
Post by: atelieryork on 2016-01-28, 16:35:05

Hi everyone,

Anyone else using the setup in title? I have 3 x monitors and whenever I turn them all off each evening, when I come in to work the next morning and switch them back on all my windows/apps are rearranged on the wrong windows, as are my desktop icons. I am using a program to sort out the icons, which works fine, but I can't find a solution for the windows. It's happening with max, photoshop, the whole lot. And what's worse is that it moves all the docked and floating windows within these apps, and they are all rearranged each time. Nightmare!

Anyone know a fix?

Win 10, gtx 970, 3 x dell monitors (different resolutions).

Cheers,

Title: Re: Multiple Monitors, Win10, Nvidia - Windows/Apps moving to wrong monitor
Post by: lacilaci on 2016-01-28, 17:47:44

It happens to me... If your PC is running and you turn off a monitor, it seems OS is trying to make sure no windows are out of screen space (there are programs although that ignore this.. connecter for example stays wherever you put it and you can't get it back until you have that monitor on.)

Would like to know myself if this can be circumvented though. Right now I just don't turn off monitor until PC is running.

Title: Re: Multiple Monitors, Win10, Nvidia - Windows/Apps moving to wrong monitor
Post by: Juraj on 2016-01-28, 18:08:59

Odd, same setup, but never experienced it.

Title: Re: Multiple Monitors, Win10, Nvidia - Windows/Apps moving to wrong monitor
Post by: atelieryork on 2016-01-29, 09:45:10

I wonder if it's a driver thing.

My colleague has the same issue, with a different graphics card and only 2 monitors.

Title: Re: Multiple Monitors, Win10, Nvidia - Windows/Apps moving to wrong monitor
Post by: Nejc Kilar on 2016-01-29, 10:34:17

Uhm funny thing, I had this happening on my workstation as well but only when I was using the iGPU as a primary graphic card. Once I got a dGPU from AMD everything started working as expected - meaning when I turned off both of my monitors the windows would not rearrange.

Not sure how or why :)

Title: Re: Multiple Monitors, Win10, Nvidia - Windows/Apps moving to wrong monitor
Post by: maru on 2016-01-29, 11:01:32

Maybe when PC goes to sleep it automatically switches to iGPU, and when you wake it, it switches back to the other one (or something similar happens). If it's the case, my guess would be that it could be fixed in BIOS by forcing the additional GPU to be always active.

Title: Re: Multiple Monitors, Win10, Nvidia - Windows/Apps moving to wrong monitor
Post by: atelieryork on 2016-01-29, 11:53:33

Quote from: maru on 2016-01-29, 11:01:32

Maybe when PC goes to sleep it automatically switches to iGPU, and when you wake it, it switches back to the other one (or something similar happens). If it's the case, my guess would be that it could be fixed in BIOS by forcing the additional GPU to be always active.

No iGPU here. Running xeon E5 processors. There is surprisingly little to no info on this anywhere online that I can find :/