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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2017-04-20T15:17:56+00:00 Microsoft is too busy making user interfaces that lack any detail whatsoever. It's hard to develop flat black & white buttons and arrows and remove transparency. Therefore, they have no time to develop truly useful things like user control over display identities.
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2017-04-20T23:30:50+00:00 Please take a computer course. and please don't give out misleading informaion.
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2017-06-13T14:43:24+00:00 Actually in some cases it does matter. I have 3 displays of which I normally use 2 monitors and the 3rd one is 55" T.V that I only use to watch movies on my home theater or for gaming. But the T.V is detected as display number 1 so the boot sequence etc is displayed on that monitor and the one that is detected as 2nd, instead of the two monitors I generally use for work. Its not a big deal but i would like that stuff to be displayed on the other two monitors I use regularly instead of the T.V
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2017-06-13T17:51:06+00:00 There is still no fix for this issue because Microsoft is using up all of its resources to ruin and destroy LinkedIn..........