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AHW 2008-03-20 00:22
I am using Vista Home Premium, SP1 on a ThinkPad with external monitor. My laptop screen is 1900x1200 and my external monitor is 1680x1050. For some reason I cannot fix the below not-expected behavours:
1) When I undock and redock, something insists on setting both monitors to 1680x1050. I need to use the Ultramon "Docked" profile desktop shortcut to return my laptop screen to normal resolution. I never had to do that when running XP with Ultramon.
2) I do NOT use mirrored task bars. However, sometimes on boot, I notice that my primary task bar comes up on my external montior - when I ALWAYS want it on my laptop monitor. There seems to be no way to manually bring it back or to programmatically keep it on my laptop monitor.
3) In my Control Applet Display settings, my laptop screen is montior #2 and my external montior is #1. I would ideally like this reversed but cannot fathom how do to this. Any clues and idea if this would fix the above problems?
4) On redock, approximately 20% the time, Vista will display a message saying Ultramon has stopped working. I am not doing anything differently on those redocks vs when it continues to operate fine on a redock.
Any help to the above would be great.
thanks,
AHW
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Christian Studer 2008-03-20 14:25
1) Could be a Windows or video card driver issue, UltraMon doesn't get involved with this.
2) This might happen if you have the external monitor set as the primary monitor. To move the taskbar back to the internal monitor, first unlock it, then drag it to the other monitor with the mouse.
3) Usually on laptops the primary monitor is #1. I'm not aware of a way to change this except for changing the primary monitor.
4) Do you have the taskbar set to use autohide?
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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AHW 2008-03-21 23:50
Hi, Yes, I always use AutoHide.
How do switch primary monitors on my latpop setup? Ever since Windows switches primary and secondary on their own, I have found no way to define (reset) them the proper way.
thanks,
AHW
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Christian Studer 2008-03-22 09:04
My guess would be that issue #4 is due to autohide, there's a similar issue with Remote Desktop and autohide. I'm going to look into this for the next release.
You should be able to change the primary monitor via the software for the video card, or with the laptop's function key to switch between external and internal monitors.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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AHW 2008-03-27 01:17
Just to note: I have used this same behavour on my XP Laptop - an earlier generation Thinkpad with no problems.
I have seen how to move the monitors around on the display "canvas" but have yet to find some way I can dynamcially switch between what is tagged as monitor 1 and what is tagged as monitor 2.
Weird as when I come up undocked, my laptop screen is monitor 1. But when I dock, it suddenly becomes monitor 2.
AHW
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Christian Studer 2008-03-27 12:08
Usually on laptops the primary monitor is always #1.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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