CJ Tihanyi 2005-06-17 06:24
All my icons keep randomly jumping over to one side, no matter how many times I move them and choose "save settings".
Has anyone experienced this?
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Christian Studer 2005-06-17 08:03
Do the icons get restored to the saved positions if you select Desktop Icons > Restore Position from the UltraMon menu?
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Iain 2005-07-04 08:11
I had that problem. It seems to have been because monitor 2 was set as the primary monitor in the windows settings (that part is still a mystery). I set monitor 1 as primary, and the problem seems to have been fixed.
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Henry A. Lester 2005-11-06 04:00
Both my wife and I have been experiencing this problem for four years, on a total of 4 Toshiba laptops. Perhaps it's because our second monitors are on the left. Christian has been unable to resolve the problem; Experts Exhange has been unable to resolve it. In response to Christian's question, no; restoring icons does not solve the problem. Restoring the primary monitor does not solve the problem. Believe me, I have devoted > 10 hours to the problem. With and without Ultramon. Nothing solves it. Nothing.
Nothing. It's an XP bug. I have not seen it documented. It's the most persistent undocumented bug I have seen in 42 years of computing experience.
The workaround: toggle btween a profile that has only one monitor, and your preferred profile that has a primary and second monitor. Use the Ultramon icon on the taskbar for this function during the toggle. Keep the pointer on the primary monitor during the toggle. This toggle has worked correctly in ~ 499 out of 500 attempts.
Henry Lester
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Henry A. Lester 2005-11-06 04:26
A glance through this forum shows that several other users have this problem:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/forum/messages.asp?Topic=3081&tmpl=UltraMon
Henry Lester
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Henry A. Lester 2005-11-22 05:34
I've finally determined the cause of this bug--or feature, depending on your viewpoint. The jumping icons occur when the primary and secondary displays have different color depth (16 vs 32, on my system). I have not systematically tracked down the reason or occurrence; and it doesn't happen all the time.
However, the solution is now clear and it always works. When your icons jump to monitor 2, open Display proteries -> settings. Set both monitors to the same color depth (either 16 or 32). "Apply" The icons always jump back to the primary display.
Henry Lester
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Christian Studer 2005-11-22 08:59
Thanks for the update.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Sean 2005-12-07 07:29
I've got this problem, though I don't use "ultramon". It happens whenever I choose to extend the desktop to my second monitor (which is on the left).
Both monitors are already set to the same colour depth...
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