Hey folks,
Something that's really been annoying me. I'll open a program on monitor 2 and ask it to do something - it will pop up a window on monitor 1 asking if I really want to do it. It will then open a window on monitor 2 showing the progress and, when, finished will open a window on monitor 1 telling me that it's done. This is most common in Winrar and Quickpar. The constant back and forth is causing neck strain Is there a way to stop this? I would prefer to have any accessory windows open on the same monitor as the main program (since that's where I'm probably looking for them).

Also, for some reason, when I run Grabit on monitor 2 the taskbar icon will only show on monitor 1 when the program is minimised. The moment I bring focus to the program the taskbar icon moves to monitor 2 (until I minimise the program again).

Is there a reason for this constant back and forth?

DisplayFusion 4.0.0. beta 11
Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1

Thanks
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Rob

Hey Keith,
I disabled DisplayFusion and rebooted and the results were 50/50 (ish)

QuickPar still insisted on opening on monitor 1 so I guess that's a programming oversight on their part. Interestingly, when I set DF to force it (and all child windows) to open on monitor 2 it opens on mon 1 and then quickly switches to mon 2.

With DF disabled WinRar 4.0 64 bit behaved as I expected it should. All child windows opened on the same monitor as the main program. Moving the main program from one monitor to the other resulted in child windows opening on the new monitor. Subsequent running of the program opened on whichever monitor was used last. Perfect. Then I re-enabled DF and rebooted and the ping pong is back. The main window opens on the proper monitor (mon 2), the extraction path and options window opens one mon 1, the active extraction window opens on mon 2 and the "Do you wish to delete the unpacked archive" window opens on mon 1.

Thanks
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Rob

Hey Keith,
Nope, no location rules for WinRar.

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Rob

Hey Keith,
I'm guessing you have an idea what the problem is Beta 8 opened the windows properly, beta 10 started ping ponging them again.

Thanks
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Rob

Hey Keith,
WinRAR 4.00 64bit
Win 7 Home Premium 64bit

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Rob

Hey Keith,
I upgraded my WinRAR to 4.11 and DF to 4.0.0. beta 12 and the problem seems to have gone away. I don't know which solved the problem as I upgraded both at the same time. So I guess this closes the file unless the problem reappears for someone else.

Thanks for your help
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Rob

Although, if it makes you feel better, Quickpar still prefers monitor 1

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Rob

Lol, yes that's true. I guess that it's not your problem then

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Rob

Kill me, kill me now. I just installed AnyDVD HD 7.0.2.0 and the problem with WinRAR is back. Maybe I should buy a Mac LOL

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Rob

Hey Keith,
I'm giving up on this, there's no rhyme or reason to what's happening.

I disabled DF, rebooted, and WinRAR worked as expected.

I enabled DF and disabled AnyDVD, rebooted, and WinRAR worked as expected

I enabled AnyDVD (DF still enabled), rebooted, and WinRAR worked as expected.

This problem seems to come and go randomly. If you have any ideas about how to narrow this down please let me know because I'm completely confused at this point. It'll probably turn out to be the display driver and have nothing to do with DF.

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Rob