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Old January 12th 09, 06:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
jaygreg
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Default Dual Monitors

I use dual monitors on my Windows XP Professional system and have had
Quicken 2008 open on the left monitor. Some time ago, I managed to move the
screen to the right monitor but I've never been able to move it back as
default. Can someone please give me a clue. I've dragged the Quicken window
to the left monitor, shut the program down, restarted it, but it appears on
the right (which is a bit smaller) monitor every time I open the program.
I'm out of ideas.


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Old January 12th 09, 06:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
raj
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Default Dual Monitors

I would suggest this:

Open up the desired program. Put it to the screen you would like. Maximize
it, resize it so it does not take up the whole screen, and then once more,
maximize it. Then shut down the program properly (usually through file -
exit) and try to reopen the program.


"jaygreg" wrote:

I use dual monitors on my Windows XP Professional system and have had
Quicken 2008 open on the left monitor. Some time ago, I managed to move the
screen to the right monitor but I've never been able to move it back as
default. Can someone please give me a clue. I've dragged the Quicken window
to the left monitor, shut the program down, restarted it, but it appears on
the right (which is a bit smaller) monitor every time I open the program.
I'm out of ideas.



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Old January 12th 09, 07:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Don Schmidt
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Default Dual Monitors

Guys,

How about after setting the displays as wanted, do a File, Save; couldn't
hurt.




"Raj" wrote in message
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I would suggest this:

Open up the desired program. Put it to the screen you would like. Maximize
it, resize it so it does not take up the whole screen, and then once more,
maximize it. Then shut down the program properly (usually through file -
exit) and try to reopen the program.


"jaygreg" wrote:

I use dual monitors on my Windows XP Professional system and have had
Quicken 2008 open on the left monitor. Some time ago, I managed to move
the
screen to the right monitor but I've never been able to move it back as
default. Can someone please give me a clue. I've dragged the Quicken
window
to the left monitor, shut the program down, restarted it, but it appears
on
the right (which is a bit smaller) monitor every time I open the program.
I'm out of ideas.





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Old January 13th 09, 05:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Randy
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Default Dual Monitors


"jaygreg" wrote in message
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I use dual monitors on my Windows XP Professional system and have had
Quicken 2008 open on the left monitor. Some time ago, I managed to move
the screen to the right monitor but I've never been able to move it back as
default. Can someone please give me a clue. I've dragged the Quicken window
to the left monitor, shut the program down, restarted it, but it appears on
the right (which is a bit smaller) monitor every time I open the program.
I'm out of ideas.


There are some nice utilities that allow you to snap programs from one
monitor to another. If you use an ATI video card their Hydravision program
works really well. There are some shareware programs that do the same
thing, such as UltraMon.



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Old January 17th 09, 11:48 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
jaygreg
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Default Dual Monitors

Didn't work, Raj. I still have the problem.

"Raj" wrote in message
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I would suggest this:

Open up the desired program. Put it to the screen you would like. Maximize
it, resize it so it does not take up the whole screen, and then once more,
maximize it. Then shut down the program properly (usually through file -
exit) and try to reopen the program.


"jaygreg" wrote:

I use dual monitors on my Windows XP Professional system and have had
Quicken 2008 open on the left monitor. Some time ago, I managed to move
the
screen to the right monitor but I've never been able to move it back as
default. Can someone please give me a clue. I've dragged the Quicken
window
to the left monitor, shut the program down, restarted it, but it appears
on
the right (which is a bit smaller) monitor every time I open the program.
I'm out of ideas.





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Old January 17th 09, 11:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
jaygreg
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Default Dual Monitors

Thanks for the info, Randy. I do this a lot and have no problem with any
program behaving properly... except Quicken 2008. I'm puzzled.

"Randy" wrote in message
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"jaygreg" wrote in message
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I use dual monitors on my Windows XP Professional system and have had
Quicken 2008 open on the left monitor. Some time ago, I managed to move
the screen to the right monitor but I've never been able to move it back
as default. Can someone please give me a clue. I've dragged the Quicken
window to the left monitor, shut the program down, restarted it, but it
appears on the right (which is a bit smaller) monitor every time I open
the program. I'm out of ideas.


There are some nice utilities that allow you to snap programs from one
monitor to another. If you use an ATI video card their Hydravision
program works really well. There are some shareware programs that do the
same thing, such as UltraMon.





 




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