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
2017-12-13T07:31:21+00:00 Hi
This is correct but it is still a bug with the newer versions of windows. Older versions (on the same hardware) used to allow the assignment to be swapped (Linux still allows this).
It is great that you found a work around for your problem but it would be nice if the bug could be addressed as well (for example of one display only has VGA and the other only HDMI it would be daft to use adapters to connect them to the wrong ports).
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2017-12-13T17:32:25+00:00 What you suggest is at best a work around not a solution say you have a 3 monitor setup as I do two HDMI monitors connected using a HDMI port and a DP port using an adapter but the 3rd monitor is a DVI monitor connected through a DVI port and that too is used only when I am using a 3D software like MAX or MAYA to give me extra work space and productivity however this DVI monitor is what is detected as my monitor 1 so every time I boot up my boot sequence and bios etc is on that now your work around wont work for me would it....... I hope Microsoft address this in future updates.
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2017-12-27T23:35:16+00:00 In the Screen Resolutionwindow, 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.
Yes the Identities DO matter! I have several apps that are rendered useless because Microsoft won't fix these issues!
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Anonymous
2017-12-28T17:25:50+00:00 Agreed, the identities are very important. However I think we have to face facts. Even though this is clearly a software issue (Windows XP could change the identities and Linux still can) I think we will never get Microsoft to change this because it appears to be a design decision in Windows 7/8/10.
They are aware of the user request (as it is nearly a decade old with regular updates from people asking for it to be fixed - basically since XP went away)...
It will never be fixed because it is very likely a very low level feature and it may cause millions of bugs if they attempt to find every line that is affected and change it (I assume they make a reference to physical hardware in the code rather than abstracting it to a variable so every reference would need to be changed which is very likely impossible.
Lesson to folks who write software (if this is the real problem): never hard code anything...