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.
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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2016-01-29T06:10:33+00:00 What type of video card do you have? With an nVidia card you can bypass monitor detection by saving the EDID to a file and locking it in.
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2016-01-30T01:04:02+00:00 Please elaborate if you would be so kind or if you have a link to instructions that would be great as well. This would be handy to do, but I have no idea how to do this. Thanks.
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2016-02-01T22:38:26+00:00 Pete: I'm having the same issue with an Intel, video on the mother board. Prey tell: how do you get to any EDID information, much less lock them to a file
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2016-02-14T00:28:30+00:00 Thank you Microsoft.
We´re heading up to a 10 years old bug report!!!!!!!!
Happy Birthday to you.....