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#WINDOWS 7 MULTIMON INSTALL#
#WINDOWS 7 MULTIMON UPDATE#
#WINDOWS 7 MULTIMON WINDOWS 10#
#WINDOWS 7 MULTIMON PC#

You may support my work and future improvements by sending me a tip using your Brave browser or by sending me a one time donation using your credit card. I hope this article has helped you resolve the issue of your open application windows resetting after your monitors resume from sleep. I welcome your thoughts, questions or suggestions regarding this article. This solution was contributed by a visitor named Jed. Installation and use instructions available from the GitHub application page.

#WINDOWS 7 MULTIMON INSTALL#

Visitor Provided Solution: ( brought my attention by a visitor named Jed) would be to install a small program, called PersistentWindows by Kangyu-california, which will recall your window positions and sizes when your monitor connection is restored from sleep.

BE CAREFUL! If you are not sure what you’re doing better have a system restore point and backup created. From there you can remove any Monitors that are grayed out. Click “ View” from the top menu and select “ Show hidden devices“. You can try this by accessing the Windows “ Device Manager” app.

Some users have reported that they resolved this issue by removing a left over display driver.

Try using new cables or switching the connection type (for example DVI to HDMI).

The issue might simply be related to one of the physical video cables you are using to connect your monitors.

#WINDOWS 7 MULTIMON WINDOWS 10#

Set its value to 0 with a Hexadecimal base.ĭid you change your mind or have other, more annoying, issues popup after disabling Monitor Auto Detection above? To re-enable the Windows 10 Automatic Monitor Detection feature, or Transient Multimon Manager (TMM), one would simply need to go back to the TMM folder mentioned above and set the value of “ UseIViewHelper” to 1 with a Hexadecimal base.

Right click on the newly created TMM sub-folder and create a new DWORD (32-bit Value) with the name “ UseIViewHelper“.

From the context menu select “ New” then “ Key” and insert “ TMM” without the quotes. To create this folder/key go to the parent “ Microsoft” folder and right click on it.

If the TMM folder does not exist under the Microsoft folder we need to create it.

Set the Value data to 0 with a Hexadecimal base.

If UseIViewHelper does not exist, right click on the TMM folder and create a new DWORD (32-bit Value) with the name “ UseIViewHelper“.

If the TMM folder exists, double click on it and look for an entry labeled “ UseIViewHelper“.

Expand this folder and look for a sub-folder named “ TMM“. We should now be on the “ Microsoft” folder. Within the Registry, copy and paste the follow path into the address bar at the top of the Registry: Click on “ Start” then type “ regedit” and press the enter key on your keyboard.

#WINDOWS 7 MULTIMON UPDATE#

( provided by Tom K., thank you Tom!)įor this fix, we’ll need to update the Windows Registry ( be sure to backup first).

#WINDOWS 7 MULTIMON PC#

Updating the registry on a desktop PC as suggested below will do nothing because TMM does not run on desktop PCs. Skip to the other solutions section of this post. TMM is only supported on mobile computers, not desktops. Specifically, the Transient Multimon Manager (TMM). In both Windows 7 and Windows 10, there is a way to disable the monitor auto detection feature by changing the registry. In this article I will cover a few possible solutions that you can try to help resolve this from occurring so you won’t have to reorder your windows after waking your monitors up from sleep. They are basically trying to ensure that you don’t end up with a blank screen with all your open windows on a turned off monitor. Because the response time differs, for one reason or another, on your monitors Windows moves your open application windows to the available monitor. The issue is that Windows is trying to “ help you” by automatically detecting which monitors are on and available. Are your application windows resetting to the primary monitor after waking your monitors from sleep on your Windows 10 PC? At least you know that you are not alone with this annoying issue.