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2nd monitor flicks to desktop while I am opening program on monitor 1
I seem to have found a solution so decided to answer my own question incase someone else has the same problem.
It was making both monitors show the desktop while hovering the mouse arrow over the little taskbar preview windows on programs that had multiple windows open.
The new windows 11 update has provided a solution by allowing you to select 'never' in the new 'combine' option in the taskbar settings. By not combining the windows into one icon on the task bar and now having each window as a separate icon/button, you no longer have to click on the preview window to open the previous minimised windows. Hence avoiding the desktop showing in the middle of a presentation or video etc.
Still don't understand why windows would force the desktop to show on both screens when hovering over the taskbar preview windows in the first place, makes no sense for it to be way. I like the grouping of the buttons in to one to clean up the taskbar but unfortunately this is the only work around I have found so far.
I seem to have found a solution so decided to answer my own question incase someone else has the same problem.
It was making both monitors show the desktop while hovering the mouse arrow over the little taskbar preview windows on programs that had multiple windows open.
The new windows 11 update has provided a solution by allowing you to select 'never' in the new 'combine' option in the taskbar settings. By not combining the windows into one icon on the task bar and now having each window as a separate icon/button, you no longer have to click on the preview window to open the previous minimised windows. Hence avoiding the desktop showing in the middle of a presentation or video etc.
Still don't understand why windows would force the desktop to show on both screens when hovering over the taskbar preview windows in the first place, makes no sense for it to be way. I like the grouping of the buttons in to one to clean up the taskbar but unfortunately this is the only work around I have found so far.