How to change monitor 1 for monitor 2

Hey davecook03,

I don't think there is a way to change the labels for your monitors but there is a solution to your problem. While you're looking at the display settings, under the "Change the appearance of yours displays there's a small diagram showing your two monitors. Right now it probably shows monitor 1 on the left and monitor 2 on the right.

All you need to do is click and drag monitor 2 in the diagram to the left side of monitor 1. This should solve your problem and make dragging windows from one monitor to the other much more intuitive.

I just had this same problem.  right click on the desktop, click on screen resolution.  Now go to the monitor labled "2", which you want to be your primary monitor.  Now check the box labled, "Make this my main display" and it will do what you are wanting it to do. :)

Most of us are computer pros or at least competant computer users and if it was that simple we would have figured it out. The problem is that you cannot actually permanently change the identity of a monitor from 1 to 2 or 2 to1, or however else someone may want to assign a number to a given display. In other words: one has no control over how W7 automatically recognizes and assigns a number to a display. For example, yes, you can go into screen resolution and say display 1 is a Dell (and is your main) and display 2 is an Acer. Yes, you can select display 2 (Acer) and click "make this my main display" but, it only makes it the main display, it doesn't change the number of the display from 2 to 1. This is a problem because it causes conficts with certain driver software (such as nVidia and ATI Catalyst) and other applications in many instances.

I agree these guys dont know what there talking about just  cookie cutting useless answers.

HERE IS THE PROBLEM :

* Installed windows 7 with bolth HDMI monitors pluged into the system.

* Windows chose the wrong one to be monitor 1

* now when I open programs they auto open on to monitor 1 witch I cant see because thats my tv and Its looking at the cable box not the pc because I only use it with the pc when Im watching movies on the pc.

HERE IS THE QUESTION:

*HOW DO YOU CHANGE MONITOR 1 TO MONITOR 2 AND STAY THAT WAY THROUGH RESTARTING.

note: in xp it was run type regedit, then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/CURRENTCONTROLSET/ENUM/DISPLAY and delete the entry's but in windows 7 it tells you cannot delete ......:Error while deleting key.  no error code