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choosing which monitor displays a program at startup
On a dual monitor system, is it possible to choose which monitor displays a
program at startup? If I put a shortcut to Internet Explorer in the startup folder, can I tell it to start the program on monitor 1 or monitor 2? Jeff |
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choosing which monitor displays a program at startup
Assuming you have a shortcut to IE on both the primary and the secondary
display on your system hopefully it would depend on watch one copied to your startup folder. "Jeff" wrote in message ... On a dual monitor system, is it possible to choose which monitor displays a program at startup? If I put a shortcut to Internet Explorer in the startup folder, can I tell it to start the program on monitor 1 or monitor 2? Jeff |
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choosing which monitor displays a program at startup
If you are using dual monitor setup provided by your video driver then it
will be an option within your driver utilities, which under normal circumstances would be accessible from an icon on your task bar (eg NVidia settings) IMO allowing a program, that actually displays on your desktop, to auto start can cause start delays and sometimes said program doesnt actually function correctly due to the sequence in which other win services & startups load "Jeff" wrote in message ... On a dual monitor system, is it possible to choose which monitor displays a program at startup? If I put a shortcut to Internet Explorer in the startup folder, can I tell it to start the program on monitor 1 or monitor 2? Jeff |
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choosing which monitor displays a program at startup
"Jeff" wrote in message ... On a dual monitor system, is it possible to choose which monitor displays a program at startup? If I put a shortcut to Internet Explorer in the startup folder, can I tell it to start the program on monitor 1 or monitor 2? Jeff You don't need to put any icons on the second monitor. With a second monitor as an extended desktop the normal behaviour for most, but not all, programs is to open in the place that you used it last. In your example all you'd need to to is open Internet Explorer as normal, reduce it to a window if it isn't already and drag it over to second monitor. Close IE while it is on the extended desktop area, whether it is windowed or full screen, and the next time you run it IE will open in the second display. A few programs (including Media Center Add-ons) insist on only opening in the primary display. I've even run into a couple that always open on the secondary display but they are quite rare. Don't know why, glitch in the programming maybe. Sometimes there might be a setting within an app to select which display to open on (ie. Media Portal) but if a specific program doesn't open by default in the last used position you're probably stuck with it behaving that way. |
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