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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2017-01-10T20:35:51+00:00 Just bought a new monitor and im using diplay port on it. Win see it as a number one now and the tv on hdmi as number two. As it should.
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2017-01-10T22:03:19+00:00 This works and has been known for a long time. However, as soon as I power down my PC and power it back up again Windows completely re-assigns everything. It has nothing to do with the Video Card Software or the Video Card itself. It's Windows automatically assigning a number to a monitor that doesn't match reality. I have to delete all of the associated information with each Monitor, VR Device, TV, Etc... and then re-plug in each one by one to get Windows to assign them correctly. Even then it only works for that specific session. Turn it off and back on again and everything it back to being all screwed up thanks to Windows.
MICROSOFT GIVE US A WAY TO RE-ASSIGN THEM MANUALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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2017-01-10T23:14:04+00:00 Why is this as it should be? Is windows assigning monitor order by a specific output order? What if you wanted the HDMI port to be number one?
So try this for me: as you have your primary display on display port, & display identified as number two on HDMI, what happens if you turn the display port display off?
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2017-01-11T20:24:18+00:00 If I unplug the displayport display from the main power, the HDMI display is set to primary and number one. After that if I plug the displayport display again it is set to 2. And I have to set the right order (for me) in NVCP.