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bunchofsage
Iron Contributor
Nov 30, 2020

Change default display arrangement from side by side to e.g. stacked

Problem:

By default Windows display settings suggest multiple monitors are placed side by side. When the setup is different, you have to open Settings  > System > Display > Rearrange your displays and adapt to your needs.

Question:

Is it possible to change this side by side preset somehow in advance, e.g. via registry / GPO?

Context:

At our office we now have docking stations at every desk and we are encourged to do desk sharing.

The desks have the same setup: the large external monitor is wall mounted and your laptop is placed on the desk itself.

This means every time you sit at a different desk you always either have to live with moving your cursor to the right in order to see it on the monitor above or you rearrange your displays in windows settings for every single desk.

This is not practical in an office environment, where all desks have a stacked monitor setup. I appreciate it's rather easy to fix the arrangement but

  1. in reality a lot of employees are not aware of this feature
  2. it's still unnecessary clicking and especially problematic, when you're under stress

4 Replies

  • cheapgeeky's avatar
    cheapgeeky
    Copper Contributor

    This article will help you. I hope

    https://cheapgeeky.com/4936/how-to-rearrange-multiple-monitors-on-windows-10/

     

    find more articles

    https://www.cheapgeeky.com/ 

  • Tikolu's avatar
    Tikolu
    Copper Contributor

    bunchofsage

     

    I made https://tikolu.net/shared/move_monitor.zip which moves can instantly move the secondary display. It is much easier and quicker than navigating through the Windows settings.

     

    If you could get the script to automatically run every time the laptop is docked, you could get it to be fully automated.

  • jrdn_rf's avatar
    jrdn_rf
    Copper Contributor

    bunchofsage I also have this issue and find it very frustrating having to change the settings every time I move desks (which in our office is most days as fully hot desk environment!)

     

    Please can we have the option to default the display arrangement for sharing to external screen.

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