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Making Teams start on Secondary Monitor
HiSteven_613 It's not a Teams function - it's a function of selecting the monitor where you want any particular program to open. You just drag the Teams icon over to the monitor you want to use - here is one of the many online instructions I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7aOUgq8eQ.
HiSteven_613 It's not a Teams function - it's a function of selecting the monitor where you want any particular program to open. You just drag the Teams icon over to the monitor you want to use - here is one of the many online instructions I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7aOUgq8eQ.
Therese_Solimeno This procedure only works when the computer is booted up and the program has been started. Whenever I start my computer for the day, Teams opens on the main monitor every time. I have to move it every morning. This procedure does nothing but set the program to open on that screen for that power cycle.
- I confirm this.
At each startup and (more annoyingly) each time I unlock screen, Teams appears on primary monitor.
Therese_Solimeno This problem is indeed specific to Teams, it's the only app that behaves this way.This has been annoying me for months. I have the laptop screen (1) set as the secondary screen, with an external monitor (2) selected as primary. That's the way I want to work.
The only "fix" I've found was to make use of the FancyZones tool within the PowerToys.
I already used the tool to split my primary screen, so I created a full-screen layout for the laptop screen and selected "Move newly created windows to their last known zone". That has worked so far (limited testing yet) so I wanted to flag it up to anyone who might be experiencing this annoying behaviour.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install
Therese_Solimeno Thanks so much for this. I've been using Windows apps for 10+ years on dual screens and never realized that's what you do to have it show up on the right screen. Appreciate the help.
