How to Swap Display Identity (Identities)

Anonymous
2009-12-03T02:46:30+00:00

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
2009-12-03T03:38:29+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-12-13T05:37:23+00:00

    I was having this problem, but I finally figured a solution.

    My Problem:  I bought an Adapter for Display port to HDMI cable. My monitor was always plugged into my one and only HDMI port, and identified as 1. Then, I plugged my TV into one of the Display ports using my new adapter so I could have 2 screens. The TV then thought it was as PC screen, and it insisted on identifying as 1, and forced my actual PC screen monitor to identify as 2.

    My Solution: I plugged my plugged my HDMI cable from my PC monitor into the adapter, and plugged my my HDMI cable from my TV into the only HDMI port from my computer.

    My Conclusion: The numbering for the monitor identity depends on which port of your computer's graphics card you are plugged into. For my computer, the numbering goes right to left, when looking at the back of my case/computer tower. The HDMI port is on the left, making it, I believe, the 4th port, with 3 ports to the right. My TV identifies as 2 because that is the left most port that it is plugged into now. My actual PC monitor is plugged into port 3, making it identify as 1. It also identifies as 1 when its plugged into ports 4 or 3, right to left, because I only have 2 displays hooked up.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-23T17:13:26+00:00

    It works for me.

    Thanks

    Manmohan Bhamra

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-17T11:03:42+00:00

    They do when you have TV, and wan't to mirror your stuff from main screen. It forces resolution and everything else to TV resolution.

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  4. Anonymous
    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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