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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.
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.
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