KVM switch + Windows 7 creates monitor switching nightmare

I'm sorry Afzal but these answers are not very helpful at all.  I think most people on this forum know where to change their monitor resolution.  The point is we don't want to buy expensive new hardware to use Windows 7 or have to go through a bunch of hoops every time we use our KVM switch.

Hopefully the requests to fix this will encourage Microsoft to release a fix within Windows 7 or allow us to disable monitor polling in Windows 7.  Other OS's don't have this problem so there's no reason that Windows 7 should.  Until then, I encourage anyone with this problem to click the "I need an answer too" button and post your issue here in the hopes that Microsoft will hear us.

I would like an answer to this as well, although I don't use a KVM i can see that my problem is closely related and a fix to the KVM-problem would solve my issue as well I'm guessing.

My issue is that every time i turn my monitor off, Windows 7 rearrange and resize my desktop windows. This probably happens because win7 change the resolution of the desktop when the monitor gets 'un-plugged' (in reality just turned off).

This is pretty much the same thing as all the ppl above me are describing, windows 7 is messing up screen resolution when it detects hardware beeing switched arround. A very simple fix to this is to turn that off! As described above, this can be worked around by minimizing all windows before i turn the monitor off, which lead me to the conclusion that it should be an extremely easy thing to fix.

Please give us the option to turn the automatic screen resolution change-thing off.

I experienced this issue when I began using the WIN 7 Beta. I had installed the 64bit beta and did all the tricks mentioned here to try and stop the window resizing, positioning when switching away from the win7 system. The best i could come up with was the minimize all windows to desktop. As long as no window became active while you were switched away, this worked best. If however a window became active all bets were off.

When the RC came out I installed it 32 bit, and no longer had the issue, until a windows update to the video driver which returned the issue. I did a system restore to revert to the driver that came with the RC and am still running on the RC without the issue. 

Imagine my surprise, upon installing the WIN7 Release (64bit) on another system connected to the SAME KVM, this issue has returned and if anything is worse.  Not only does the window positions and sizes change, but on some occasions upon return to the win7 system the resolution is stuck at 1024x768, which is what has caused the windows to change their size and positon.  Clicking the Detect monitor button on on the change resolution window will automatically return the resolution to my normal 1920x1200. 

Meanwhile the Win 7 RC also still connected to the SAME KVM still does NOT have the issue.  Based on my experience with the issue and prior to reading the posts above, I was of the opinion that running 64bit OS had more to do with the issue than anything else, but now i am not so sure that is the case. 

The answer which currently has been given to this issue, " just replace the KVM switch with those KVM switches supporting FULL TIME/ Active DDC function." is about as acceptable as suggesting we replace our OS with one which supports our current KVM. 

I find it hard to believe this 'NEW feature' (bug) cannot be an option which could then be switched on or off if a user so desires.  The argument that 90% of users do not have or use KVM switches also will not be acceptable. (to me)

I read this forum thread, hoping to find a solution to the issue, and instead end up writing what is essentially a complaint against what is an outstanding OS release, now heavily 'soured' by this single issue.

I shall continue to monitor this thread, hoping for a resolution besides the one which will require me to work overtime, so I can go purchase a KVM which supposedly will work with windows 7 leaving a perfectly working KVM with ALL other OS's destined to some landfill.

I'm having a similar problem. When I switch to my work PC that runs XP, It switched fin, but when I switch to my Win 7 pc, I have to turn my monitor off, then back on and hit C+A+D a few times to get it to turn the monitor back on. Very frustrating. Same thing happened in Vista to me. Amazing that a newer operating system that constantly monitors displays doesn't recognize when you turn the monitor back on or switch back from a KVM as good as an OS released 6 years ago did.

I am having a similar problem I suspect caused by the same "feature"

I have a new system I built using the hd4200 onboard ati video.

My first problem was the new drivers removed the ability to adjust the desktop area for my 52 inch tv.So I am using the older ati drivers.

 I am not sure if the problem I have now existed previously as I just built this system.When I switch my tv inputs{52 inch sharp aquos} to watch tv I hear the device disconnected sound.When I switch back any open windows are all moved over to the left stacked on top each and on top of my sidebar.

  So I appear to have the same problem as the kvm users.How could such a feature get thru testing.I am using my computer as HTPC.Surely this is a perfect example of the uses that Microsoft had intended.

Is there a registry hack or a service to disable that will stop this from happening?