Nick 2011-08-10 05:10
I'm using the latest version of UltraMon with a LapTop/Big Screen TV set up. I have two profiles set up, one that makes my laptop the primary monitor and one that makes my Big Screen the primary monitor. Right now when I switch between the two it moves the Windows taskbar and all the icons to whichever screen is prime. Is there a way to set it so that the taskbar and icons always stay on the laptop, but the big screen is the prime monitor so that anything I start from the laptop will run on the big screen?
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Christian Studer 2011-08-10 12:34
Which version of Windows are you using?
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Nick 2011-08-10 12:46
I'm using Windows 7 64 bit...
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Christian Studer 2011-08-11 09:14
The taskbar and icons get moved by Windows, I'm not aware of a way to prevent this, but it would be possible to move them back to the laptop screen with a custom script, let me know if you would be interested in this.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Nick 2011-08-11 16:44
Thanks, Christian. The problem is when they move back and forth between screens the icons move around a little. A script would move them back ok, but I'm guessing I'd experience the same phenomenon with the movement of the icons.
It's strange because on my old setup a Windows XP computer and an older version of UltraMon the icons and taskbar all stayed on my desktop and just the primary monitor changed.
Do you if there's a way to set up an .exe file (a slideshow) to play on Monitor 2 by default? I tried right clicking on the .exe's Properties, but there's no tab for UltraMon like I get on other .exe files like Excel...
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Christian Studer 2011-08-12 08:42
That should work fine, the script would use UltraMon's feature to save/restore icon positions. You can give this a try yourself, icon positions can be saved/restored via UltraMon menu > Desktop Icons.
I think Windows moves the taskbar to the primary monitor since Vista, earlier versions didn't do this.
Regarding the slideshow: try creating a shortcut to the file, then configure custom position settings for the shortcut.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Nick 2011-08-12 18:01
Thanks, Christian. I'll give the shortcut a try. I hadn't thought of that and it may just solve the issue for me. Thanks!
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