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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Anonymous
2011-11-15T19:55:57+00:00 Actually, display number DOES matter.
I have computer display AND LCD TV connected via reciever. PC display set as primary.
BUT, it has number 2. TV got number 1.
When computer boots, I see BIOS on my PC display.
But, then TV is off, windows login screen goes to TV!
To get my login screen i have to turn on my TV. When I do so, screen blinks and login screen goes to PC display. This is REALLY annoying.
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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
Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Windows Community site.
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Anonymous
2011-12-25T17:18:19+00:00 Well that was really helpful Dena B
The users with issues ARE ALL DEALING WITH THE SAME PROBLEM!
Why start a new thread? When more information regarding a problem is presented, this assists in troubleshooting the issue.
I as well am dealing with the same problem - it is imperitive that Monitor 1 is a particular monitor BUT Win7 will not allow for reassignment of the monitors. I can change my primary desktop to monitor 2 but this is not enough.
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2011-12-26T14:36:08+00:00 I still don't think Microsoft understands the issue. I've encounted this bug a 2nd time now.
I just upgraded my home computer from WinXP to Win7. It is dual headed. Under XP, the same monitor that displays the BIOS messages and the initial boot display becomes monitor number 1 under XP.
On Win7, the monitor that displays the BIOS messages and the initial boot display becomes monitor number 2 under Win7. I was able to swap them in the control panel, etc. but that isn't the point.
With the exact same hardware configuration (yes, I understand the NVIDIA driver would be slightly different between my 32-bitXP system and the 64-bitWIn7 system), Win7 seemed to go out of its way to pick the OTHER monitor as the primary monitor.
I'm not a novice in this space. I work for HP and have been doing OS level software for close to 30 years. Hiding this bug under some basic "How do I swap my monitors?" question just delays any solution.