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
2018-01-27T07:45:42+00:00 Click on the display you want as primary. Then scroll down to "Multiple Displays". check the check box "Make this my main display".
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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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2017-11-04T15:19:37+00:00 I see this is an old problem so I don't see much chance of a solution but I have found another reason why it would be nice to swap the identities in Windows 10...
Background:
- I have a Huion GT 200+ v2 for drawing (amazing screen with 8000 pressure levels) and an ASUS screen for "everything else"
- The Huion driver puts the pen only on display 1 (OK that's a bug with their software I guess)
Sadly, Windows will always put ASUS on display 1 and Huion on 2 (even if I swap plugs on the graphics card)
So now I have to unplug the ASUS to draw which slightly defeats the idea of having two monitors.
As Windows is now a service please can I request a patch that will allow users to assign which display is display 1
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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..........