How to Swap Display Identity (Identities)

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!!!

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

I'm having the same problem.

I am trying to use x-plane 10 and that has an option to output some things to the 2nd monitor. Thats the option, no other settings.

so when WINDOWS sets up your primary monitor as monitor 2 and I only have 1 monitor connected it all goes fine but I have that option off in X-Plane10

BUT when I connect my 2nd monitor which is via HDMI that new monitor is identified as monitor 1 and my primary is now monitor 2

So when I go back into x-Plane10 and turn that 2nd monitor option on it puts both displays into the primary monitor as its primary which the program is running on but its also monitor 2 which is also what the program is outputting the 2nd monitor data too.

I need to change the identity of my primary monitor to monitor 1 so I can use the 2nd monitor as an actual 2nd monitor so its needs the identity set to 2 NOT 1 like Windows 7 forces onto it.

And since when have anyone in Microsoft actually helped? I've gone through heaps of pages here over the many years of working in the computer industry and 90% of the time they don't have a clue. You usually get the correct answer from a user NOT an admin or moderator as they dont have a clue. They are just there to look good or they look in the manual and copy the answer they think is correct but it usually has absolutely nothing to do with the question asked.

Just about everyone here NEEDS an option to change the IDENTITY of the monitor from 2 to 1 but I bet it wont come from MS, it'll come from someone that actually knows what they are talking about.

We know how to change it from Primary to secondary but even I cant find how to change the identity from 2 to 1.

I did try UltraMon and it only changed it in UntraMon it still didn't change the identity in windows or any apps so all it does is make you think its changed but its not.

Now I've given you the name of an app to try it on.

Primary monitor - DVI - Identity Monitor 2

Secondary monitor - HDMI - identity Monitor 1

HOW DO YOU CHANGE THE IDENTITY FROM 2 TO 1?

I think I have a problem that highlights the fundamental issue here.

I'm running:

Win 7 64 bit SP1

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 PCIE outputting via VGA to one 3M 1500 touch screen and one Samsung LCD monitor.

This specific set up is designed for our own application where the touchscreen is the UI and primary screen, while the LCD is the secondary display. Despite these being marked as such in "Control Panel > Display" and in the Nvidia control panel, whenever our application starts the screens swap over so the UI is on the secondary screen and graphics are on primary.

The application looks to the OS to tell it on which monitor to display the UI but on this Win7 set-up (we have various hardware configurations but this is one of the few that isn't XP) it cannot configure correctly, so I'm convinced that somewhere in the Win 7 the screens are defined incorrectly and this seems to be supported by other comments above.

Interestingly the 3M touch screen comes with a piece of software called the Multi Monitor Manager which seems to back this up, as it incorrectly defines the touchscreen as screen "2" and LCD as screen "1". Again, this is contrary to the OS info in "Control Panel > Display".

I don't know if this makes it easier to solve but it does seem to highlight the issue of how Win7 defines screen one and two.

Any help from Microsoft on this matter would be much appreciated. Surely someone there with greater knowledge of this operating system than me should be able to explain this?