Prior to installing Windows 10 on this machine I had first Windows 7 and then 8.1 installed, and never had any such problem. In fact, I've been running dual monitor setups with dissimilar resolution monitors on a series of machines for at least the past 15 years, and had no problem until I installed Windows 10 a couple of months ago. This machine is also dual-boot with Linux Mint, and no problem there with open apps being moved to the primary monitor after screen save. Only after installing Windows 10 have I encountered this problem.
"had no problem until I installed Windows 10"..., therein lies the problem. Windows 10, as it turns out, is a camel-sized dog, with camel numbered fleas!
I used to have a screen saver (Firehand Ember) which worked well with my two monitors but as Windows has moved on it got left behind and the person who produced it gave up! So did the screen saver. It used to display different images on the two...
I fear I won't describe my problem, but here goes:
I have two monitors, my laptop screen and a 2nd monitor. When I watch Foxtel, it displays on the external monitor, accessed via HDMI 1 port. My laptop feeds into the external monitor via the...
I have two monitors. One uses dual DVI cable and one uses DisplayPort. When the monitors wake up after a sleep, the apps on the DVI monitor move to the DisplayPort monitor. This probably has to do with the difference when Windows senses which...
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