How to Swap Display Identity (Identities)

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Windows 7 - Display 'A' Philips primary display - Display 'B' IBM secondary display. A shows as Identity 2 and B shows as Identity 1. I want to reverse these. Reason is that the cursor currently travels from display B to A and I need it to go the other way - due to physical location of displays

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In the Screen Resolution window, under Change the appearance of your displays , click and drag one of the monitors to its correct location vs. the other one. The Identity numbers don't matter.

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Anonymous

2017-04-20T23:30:50+00:00

Please take a computer course. and please don't give out misleading informaion.
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Anonymous

2017-04-20T15:17:56+00:00

Microsoft is too busy making user interfaces that lack any detail whatsoever. It's hard to develop flat black & white buttons and arrows and remove transparency. Therefore, they have no time to develop truly useful things like user control over display identities.
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Anonymous

2017-04-20T08:36:21+00:00

6 years old topic, problem described on hunderts of sites, important for many people and still no solution? God, are they woring there or just counting the money?
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Anonymous

2017-01-12T19:59:44+00:00

Sooo I switched to DVI-D from displayport on my monitor and now win identifys it as 2 and the tv on hdmi as 1. The old situation as before on my old monitor.

I suppose there is some internal recognition in windows of the ports. Dont know why we cant manually set the identity of the displays.
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