Multiple Monitors Made Easy

I’ve been using DisplayFusion since 2011. I work for a small nonprofit that has no internal IT expert support, so I’m on my own most of the time. On a half dozen occasions, something funky has happened to my three monitors, especially after a Windows® upgrade. Every time I’ve reached out to the Binary Fortress Software/DisplayFusion (DF) team for help, they had the answer to me within 24 hours.
This past week, I entered the wrong combination of keystrokes to insert a footnote in a word processing document. Unbeknownst to me at first, the two monitors I wasn’t looking at had become dim, as if they went into some sort of power-saving mode. If I moved my cursor to one of the dimmed monitors and clicked on something, it came back to life and the other monitor went dim.
I had no clue what I did. By the time I realized I had a problem, it was at least 10 minutes after the footnote keystroke mistake, so I wasn’t able to make the connection between the monitor dimming and the footnote keystrokes. I spent an hour trying to figure out what I did.
Then I e-mailed the DF team and I had an answer within an hour. My wrong combination of keystrokes accidentally activated the monitor “fading” feature. The DF team e-mailed me easy-to-follow instructions to disable the fading feature. My nightmare was over.
The DisplayFusion team is composed of a great group of people. Those people and their terrific software allow me to be more efficient at work.

I upgraded to Windows 10 two weeks ago. I was on Windows 7 and using DisplayFusion and very happy with what it offered. Since Windows 10 has some nice dual monitor support I almost decided not to use DisplayFusion again.
But after 2 weeks, while Windows 10 allows a taskbar on each monitor and has better integration (it allows to move Windows Win+Shift+Arrow to other monitors) as well as resizing and snapping them with shortcuts, there were some things annoying me. Hitting the Win key always opened the menu in the main monitor, not the current one. I also missed the ability to middle-click on application titlebars to send them to other monitors and I could not pin apps to taskbars on the extended monitors.
Windows 10 is better but still not great for multi-monitor users (I have 4). I installed DisplayFusion and I'm happy to see that I can still use all the native Windows shortcuts for Windows, so DisplayFusion is not messing with anything or removing features, but adding more things on top of what you already have in Windows 10. It's a win, win situation.