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DBR14
Jan 26, 2022Iron Contributor
Main monitor for the Remote Desktop Client
Is there a way to select a "main monitor" for the the AVD session. Our users have a laptop (wherever they want it) amongst 3 standard 24" monitors. We have a few hyper-annoying users making this requ...
logictests
Sep 08, 2025Copper Contributor
I was able to fix this... after hours of frustration. Yes, AVD, of course i want my VERTICAL MONITOR to be my primary display...
I edited this file:
ran "mstsc /l" and looked at the resolutions to find which one was the one I wanted primary and which secondary. For me it was 1 for primary and 0 for secondary (note these don't match the ones in the display arrangement settings window)
Then, I found and edited this file:
%localappdata%\Packages\MicrosoftCorporationII.Windows365_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\settings.json
I replaced:
"selectedMonitors\":[0,1],
with:
"selectedMonitors\":[1,0],
and the next time i launched my AVD connection it was fixed.