Multiple Monitors Not Displaying Properly

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I have just done a clean install of Windows 10, I have a Dell 830 with Nvida GT 1030 display. Before the new install I had two monitors with my icons on the right monitor and the desktop extending to the left monitor. This would allow me to have Photoshop on the right and  menus, etc. on the left so I had the full right monitor for the photo being edited.

Since the install the left monitor has the icons no matter how I move them around in the Display menu on Windows. I have the latest drivers. Any thoughts?

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Do you have the latest drivers installed, which are direct from both Dell and nVidia and not from Microsoft?

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Yes, but, just to be sure I d/l ed them again, reinstalled and restarted my computer. No joy. I guess my next call will be to Dell but that will be 3 hours of redoing everything I have with little chance of success in my opinion.

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Change “Make this my main display” at Settings, Display, Multiple monitors to the other one (i.e. after selecting 1 or 2 at the top).

If this doesn’t help, please clarify whether “my icons” means desktop or taskbar.

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Still doesn’t work. I am referring to the desktop icons. The taskbar icons are OK, adding to my confusion. Thank you for your help.

Jim

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[Al Taylor]

Here’s a simple solution that worked for me in June 2019 (found it by Googling, but sorry to say I have lost the link).

1) Keep the second monitor connected

2) Select all the icons and move them over to Monitor #1 (the one you want to be the Primary screen).

3) Copy and paste ANY single Icon, or “dummy” text file, or empty folder anywhere onto Monitor #2

4) Reboot and check that it works.

(Good luck)

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Al Taylor.

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You can shuffle the monitors around in the monitor setup screen, and you can also renumber them. I suggest you first number them from left to right (left = 1 and right = 2); then if they aren’t right after you have done that, shuffle them around in the monitor setup screen.

Be sure to click the Identify button to make sure each monitor has the number you think it has.

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MrJimPhelps wrote:

You can shuffle the monitors around in the monitor setup screen, and you can also renumber them.

How do you renumber them?

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I don’t know if I am stupid or.. Maybe stay with stupid. I moved the icons. choose “Make this my main display” in settings and it works. Ye gads! Thank you so much. Sometimes the simplest answer is the one you overlook.

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b wrote:

How do you renumber them?

The option to renumber them is within the Intel video software that comes with Dell computers. I don’t recall the exact way to do it, but I remember seeing it on a customer’s computer.

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MrJimPhelps wrote:

The option to renumber them is within the Intel video software that comes with Dell computers. I don’t recall the exact way to do it, but I remember seeing it on a customer’s computer.

There’s no option to renumber displays in my Intel Graphics Command Center (and I can’t find any reference to such a capability anywhere else).

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The next time I run across this, I will post here how to do it. Sorry that I’m not able to check it now, because I don’t have a Windows computer handy with multiple monitors.

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Mine either, intel or Nvidia

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