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Second monitor on Laptop -- external monitor keeps defaulting to the right side

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Mar 15, 20268909 views
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I have a T61 running Windows Server 2008 (yes as a desktop OS) and I use an external second monitor. The external monitor sits to the left of the laptop. When I sleep the laptop and then use it as a laptop it properly reverts to single screen mode. However, when I re-dock it thinks that the monitor…

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Fix for: Second monitor on Laptop -- external monitor keeps defaulting to the right side

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Vista (Server 2008 is essentially Vista SP1 with server features) has a service called Transient Multimonitor Manager that is intended to aide in handling changing the monitor configuration on the fly. My experience is that it is best not to use TTM…

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