Multiple Displays - Change Settings and Layout in Windows 10  

Thank you. This post assisted me with changing resolution on both of my displays. I didn't realize that unless each monitor is selected individually and resolution set for each separately that the displays wouldn't automatically duplicate resolutions.

I've been using Dual Monitor Tools version 2.6.0.0, by Gerald Evans to control my four monitors. It is very configurable, I defined CNTL - ALT - HOME to bring my cursor back home. I am very happy with this free download.

I have 3 monitors (Left, Middle, Right)
L & M are DELL P2214H; R is DELL P2217H
all 3 are set to 1080x1920 resolution

L & M are in LANDSCAPE mode; R is in PORTRAIT mode

All three monitors are in "extended desktop.." with R being the 'main' display with a single task-bar at the right-most vertical side.

My problem is between monitors L and M:
I have tried everything to align these two monitors (used Settings/Display ....) but they don't quite align
correctly. There is about an 4-5 mm difference between the monitors. Hence, when I stretch a application across both monitors the gap makes it difficult to work. I have tried everything, but it never completely aligns.

Any suggestions to fix this issue will be greatly appreciated.

I'm using two HP monitors, one IBM monitor, and one Dell monitor. I use a MSI GeForce GTX 960 graphics adapter for the four monitors. I'm running Windows 10 Prox x64 on a Xeon with 6 cores. There are multiple utilities in play controlling the topology of the extended desktop.

• Windows 10 Pro, Settings > Display
• "Dual Monitor Tools", described in an earlier post in this thread
• "HP Display Assistant"
• "NVIDIA GeForce Experience"
• Control Panel > NVIDIA Control Panel

I'm having a senior moment remembering which takes precedence.

Don't forget that most monitors can adjust their physical height. After finding what I got from all of these software settings, I did a final adjustment by physically raising or lowering the monitors.

The final adjustment is with your eyes and brain. Unless you are adjusting the white level and color settings in each monitor, you might notice the the colors across monitors do not match exactly. Drag a window across the monitors and you might sense the color shifts. Your eye and mind adapts.

This feature has been working perfectly for me during the eight years I've had my laptop connected to my tv. Until yesterday! My computer's HDMI-connection suddenly lost contact with my tv-screen. Through an update or what not it didn't work anymore. I contacted Microsoft chat-support and they sent me an "in-place upgrade" and promised me that "everything would work out fine". After hours of downloading and installing i realised it didn't work anyway! Trying to find my tv-screen through Windows Settings, System, Display and also through the Intel Graphics settings with no result, I got frustrated and tried an unconventional tactic. I just unplugged the HDMI-connection in my computer and put it back in again. When I had done this five or six times suddenly it worked! So this is what I have to do now almost every time I want to watch anything on my computer through HDMI. However now I manage to do it in one or two attempts. Is this the way a modern "stable" operating system should be working?

As a newbie here I was getting confused as to what the menus meant! Now I can understand better.

I need to have my monitor close to me and having two monitors apart is no good. But after reading the tutorial, by experiment, I found a workaround.
My main monitor has the standard input socket plus a HDMI input. If I connect the standard output on my Win 10 desktop to its own monitor and the HDMI to my other (Win 7) desktop's monitor HFMI input then I can select either Desktop to show on the one monitor. I also installed Mouse Without Borders. I just have to remember to match the monitor input (press button on the frame) to where I have moved the cursor

I only worked this out half an hour ago so am still getting used to it. Not sure what happens if one desktop goes to sleep while I am "using" the other! Maybe moving the cursor to the sleepyhead will wake it up - all good fun.

Tony

One week later and my new PC is fully up to date with Win 10 and the latest Features package. I have installed most of my standard programmes (from Win 7 and XP) to the Win 10 OS and they all installed without fuss. Remarkable!

Being able to switch back and forth between desktops at the press of an input select button on my in-use monitor, and have the same mouse and keyboard in play all the time has been exceptionally useful given my narrow visual field. So really I am almost out of questions

But one thing is puzzling me.
In Extended Display mode I see that the monitor to my right (VGA input) is just showing the desktop with some icons. But the monitor in front of me (HDMI input), when not showing any active programme windows, is also showing icons, but not the same ones!

Now I am sure that it is not due to the Radeon adaptor having different memory space for the VGA and HDMI outputs - so how is Win 10 managing to send two different desktop layouts at the same time?

I have a issue with all (3) browser programs Firefox, Google Chrome, and Edge. When I open them up the secondary monitor shows a colored line depending on the color of the browser and its on the bottom of the secondary screen. Its even there if I play a video in full screen mode on the secondary monitor. I normally don't use edge. I only use Firefox and Chrome. So is there a way to change the size of the browser windows when they open. I think there opening up to big from top to bottom on my laptop screen.