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I have an NEC laptop with a Geforce 6200, attached to a 19" LCD monitor. Now, it's automatically assigning the laptop monitor as primary, and the 19" as secondary, and I want to reverse this, so the 19" is the primary monitor. How can I do this? Just about every option is greyed out.

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Plug the correct monitor into the other video outlet.
Then, in your Display properties, drag the monitors into their correct locations.

Voila.

FYI: you can't switch the output!

Reply to Mobius

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How about screw you. I already searched for half an hour, and decided to add the technical expertise of the forum users to my search.

Mobius: That only changes which edges of the monitors join together and doesn't move the start bar.

On my Dell laptp, it's the other way around, which is good. The 19" is the primary on my left, and my laptop monitor is secondary.

Essentially, I need to swap the little numbers '1' and '2' on the display properties.

Reply to Arucard

Go to display properties, click on settings, click once on monitor number 2 then right click on the same monitor then click on Primary and then click apply and ok then reboot and this should do it .....

Reply to ttibbetts

Unfortunately, all those options are greyed out, with the message that it's not supported, and I'm in dualview.

I've given up and I'm looking at 3rd-party software to move the startbar and desktop.

Reply to Arucard

Try UltraMon thats what I use and it allows me to stretch the desktop across three monitors but keep each monitor seperate from each other when running programs. It also allows for seperate taskbars for each monitor.

Reply to ttibbetts

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Try UltraMon thats what I use and it allows me to stretch the desktop across three monitors but keep each monitor seperate from each other when running programs. It also allows for seperate taskbars for each monitor.



That's exactly what I just installed ;)

Unfortunately, it didn't help. It seems it's hard coded into the graphics card that the laptp monitor has to be the primary one. not even UltraMon could change that. the extra taskbar didn't help, as the start menu was still only on one screen, and all the windows popped up on that one as well.

Reply to Arucard

Are you using the original NEC drivers or are you using Nvidia drivers ?

Reply to ttibbetts

If your using the original drivers I would say it is something NEC programmed into the drivers . I've run nvidia since the tnt days and had dual monitor since they started them can't say I remember ever having a problem like that .

Reply to ttibbetts

Tried updating the NVidia drivers with no luck. I'm guessing it's just NEC humping us good.

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