Every time there's a prompt of some kind, or a dialog box, it's displayed on my secondary monitor. Here's an example.
- Win+R (Run prompt displays on secondary)
notepadand Enter (Notepad.exe displays on primary)- Ctrl+S (Save as dialog displays on secondary)
Why is it behaving like this, and is there a way to force all new prompts, dialog boxes, program windows, etc. to display on my primary monitor?
Honestly, I thought that's what the option "make this my main display" was for?!?…
Would it not be more intelligent if the program windows were displayed on the secondary monitor? In the example above, have the Run prompt and Save as dialog displayed on primary, and then pop that Notepad.exe window on the secondary monitor?
What controls this anyway? I know that Windows can remember the last location on the monitor where you had a certain program window, and then when you open that same window again, it would be displayed in same location. So I tried to open the Run prompt, move it over to my primary monitor, open a notepad from it, close everything down, and open the Run prompt again. It displayed on the secondary monitor again……..
Best Answer
Try restoring the window, to it's normal size, then move it to the primary monitor. Then x out (shut down). Now Windows should remember where it last was. Then if you re-open it, then you can choose to maximize it and shut down again. Then it will re-open on the primary in a maximized window.
This worked for me when I noticed Adobe kept opening on my secondary monitor and I started looking for solutions online.