How to Swap Display Identity (Identities)

Anonymous
2009-12-03T02:46:30+00:00

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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Anonymous
2009-12-03T03:38:29+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2012-06-25T01:28:02+00:00

    Same issue here.  My HDTV is always number 1 and some programs will open on 1 no matter what you set the primary display to be.

    Obviously MS doesn't care considering this problem was pointed out 2 years ago.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-06-13T13:27:40+00:00

    I too have this same damn problem.. since ATI identifies it correctly and OS identifies my HDTV incorrectly many times when I switch my tv input to another source I will lose my DAMN screen completely and will be on the secondary with no METHOD to get back to my primary being on my DVI display at all unless I turn the display back to the PC.  This is absolutely stupid!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-02-10T23:45:38+00:00

    Thx. That worked like a charm! Not very intuitive in the actual settings but it worked. Thx again.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-11-16T21:03:09+00:00

    Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Windows Community site. In an effort to focus more attention on your particular situation create a new thread here.  This will mitigate confusion caused by more than one posting about similar   topics, allowing us to focus on each customer individually

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