Win 7 Multi Monitor Problem
As a partner, I installed 7Ultimate on my personal machine. I have a problem and I'm puzzled by the lack of any forum corresponding to 7 on the community website. These responses from Microsoft engineers have been very valuable in the past.
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I have four monitors installed in a 1,2 top and 3,4 bottom configuration. Monitor 1 is the primary and had the master toolbar at one time, (quicklaunch etc). It is still primary but the master toolbar has moved to monitor three which is left bottom and is not primary. Why did this happen and what can I do to fix it?
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