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Terry_434
I have five (5) displays. I have display 1 set as my Main display, which has the main taskbar with the search box and "Show hidden icons" control. I often remotely log into my computer via remote desktop connection (RDC) from home or when traveling. Windows 10, however, does not completely reset the taskbars back to their previous states after RDC is used.
After having used RDC to log into my computer from a remote location, when I come back to the office and log into my computer locally, I find that the main taskbar has moved to another display. Currently it is moving to display 5, which is connected to the video card via DVI. Display 1, however, still is indicated as my Main display and has all of the icons that are supposed to be there. To get the main taskbar back to display 1, I need to reset display 5 to be my Main display, and then again reset display 1 back to being my Main display. I end up needing to do this multiple times per week, which is annoying. That process used to screw up my desktop icon organization, but thankfully it no longer does.
Further information - I now have taskbars showing on all displays, but there is only one main taskbar. The other taskbars appear to be secondary taskbars that have a little circle for initiating a search in place of an actual search box, and they lack the "Show hidden icons" control. I would rather have the actual search box and "Show hidden icons" control showing in the taskbar presented on display 1. For instance, after logging in locally this morning and before resetting my Main display as described above, I selected the circle in the taskbar showing on display 1, but it opened the search box on display 5. The next time I selected the same circle, however, the search box did open correctly on display 1. Weird. Moreover, I frequently access the "Show hidden icons" control, and it is much more convenient for that to always be accessible on display 1.
Potential solutions:
1. (Preferred) Find a way to keep the main taskbar including the search box and "Show hidden icons" control on the Main display (display 1) after using RDC.
2. (Potential work around) Find a way to change all of the circles in the secondary taskbars to be full search boxes that alwaysopen on the display where they are located and add the "Show hidden icons" control to each of the secondary taskbars, having them always open the hidden icons on the display where they are located.
If anyone knows how to implement either one of these solutions, please let me know.
Background - Under Windows 7 I only had one taskbar showing on my Main display, and it always stayed put. The issue popped up after upgrading to Windows 10. Sometime along the line I discovered the option to show the taskbar on all of the displays but, as noted, this still does not fully address the issue.
Trouble shooting I have tried - I used to have two video cards (AMD 6000 series for three displays and AMD 5000 series for two displays). After the issue popped up, I tried using the 6000 video card for three displays and the CPU (I7 3770k) integrated graphics for two displays, but the problem persisted. Most recently I installed a single video card (RX 580) that handles all five of the displays. The problem still persists. I also have installed various video driver versions in the various configurations, and nothing has fixed the problem.
The next step I will try is connecting the DVI output from the video card to display 1 and getting a display port to DVI converter for display 5 (display 5 only has a DVI port and my video card only has one of those). Still, I am not confident this will fix the problem. I tried connecting display 1 to a DVI port when I had two video cards in the system, but the problem persisted with that configuration.
I have done some research, and it appears the same problem occurs when using NVidia video cards, so I think the problem is Windows 10 not completely resetting the taskbars back to their previous states after RDC is used.
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After having used RDC to log into my computer from a remote location, when I come back to the office and log into my computer locally, I find that the main taskbar has moved to another display. Currently it is moving to display 5, which is connected to the video card via DVI. Display 1, however, still is indicated as my Main display and has all of the icons that are supposed to be there. To get the main taskbar back to display 1, I need to reset display 5 to be my Main display, and then again reset display 1 back to being my Main display. I end up needing to do this multiple times per week, which is annoying. That process used to screw up my desktop icon organization, but thankfully it no longer does.
Further information - I now have taskbars showing on all displays, but there is only one main taskbar. The other taskbars appear to be secondary taskbars that have a little circle for initiating a search in place of an actual search box, and they lack the "Show hidden icons" control. I would rather have the actual search box and "Show hidden icons" control showing in the taskbar presented on display 1. For instance, after logging in locally this morning and before resetting my Main display as described above, I selected the circle in the taskbar showing on display 1, but it opened the search box on display 5. The next time I selected the same circle, however, the search box did open correctly on display 1. Weird. Moreover, I frequently access the "Show hidden icons" control, and it is much more convenient for that to always be accessible on display 1.
Potential solutions:
1. (Preferred) Find a way to keep the main taskbar including the search box and "Show hidden icons" control on the Main display (display 1) after using RDC.
2. (Potential work around) Find a way to change all of the circles in the secondary taskbars to be full search boxes that alwaysopen on the display where they are located and add the "Show hidden icons" control to each of the secondary taskbars, having them always open the hidden icons on the display where they are located.
If anyone knows how to implement either one of these solutions, please let me know.
Background - Under Windows 7 I only had one taskbar showing on my Main display, and it always stayed put. The issue popped up after upgrading to Windows 10. Sometime along the line I discovered the option to show the taskbar on all of the displays but, as noted, this still does not fully address the issue.
Trouble shooting I have tried - I used to have two video cards (AMD 6000 series for three displays and AMD 5000 series for two displays). After the issue popped up, I tried using the 6000 video card for three displays and the CPU (I7 3770k) integrated graphics for two displays, but the problem persisted. Most recently I installed a single video card (RX 580) that handles all five of the displays. The problem still persists. I also have installed various video driver versions in the various configurations, and nothing has fixed the problem.
The next step I will try is connecting the DVI output from the video card to display 1 and getting a display port to DVI converter for display 5 (display 5 only has a DVI port and my video card only has one of those). Still, I am not confident this will fix the problem. I tried connecting display 1 to a DVI port when I had two video cards in the system, but the problem persisted with that configuration.
I have done some research, and it appears the same problem occurs when using NVidia video cards, so I think the problem is Windows 10 not completely resetting the taskbars back to their previous states after RDC is used.
Continue reading...