Laptop + Monitor - Screen Alignment Problem

[Dunga Bee]

Hello all.

My laptop is an Inspiron 5150 with the Fx5200 GPU (32MB). I am using my laptop in my office along with a KDS 19" monitor and using Dual View. When I am in the office, I go to the display properties and align my monitor with my laptop display so windows span across the monitors correctly and so my mouse moves from one display to the other properly. My screens are aligned with the bottoms of each level with one another.

Once I align them, those settings hold for me through reboots and so on without any problems. But, when I take my laptop home and boot it with no second monitor and then return to the office, my screens are again not aligned and I need to go in to the display properties to fix them. It's not like this is a HUGE issue, but it is annoying since the idea of a laptop is the ability to take it home from work and on the road. For whatever reason, after booting the laptop without the second screen, it always assumes the second monitor and the laptop LCD are aligned @ the top and not at the bottom.

To help visualize this:

Default Alignment by XP

|LCD| |KDS|

|LCD|

Actual Alignment

|LCD|

|LCD| |KDS|

So. my question is:

Is there a way to have the second monitor align with the laptop LCD at the bottom by default. Or, is there a way to have the screen alignment saved in a profile?

Thanks in advance.

[DaddO]

Hello all.

My laptop is an Inspiron 5150 with the Fx5200 GPU (32MB). I am using my laptop in my office along with a KDS 19" monitor and using Dual View. When I am in the office, I go to the display properties and align my monitor with my laptop display so windows span across the monitors correctly and so my mouse moves from one display to the other properly. My screens are aligned with the bottoms of each level with one another.

Once I align them, those settings hold for me through reboots and so on without any problems. But, when I take my laptop home and boot it with no second monitor and then return to the office, my screens are again not aligned and I need to go in to the display properties to fix them. It's not like this is a HUGE issue, but it is annoying since the idea of a laptop is the ability to take it home from work and on the road. For whatever reason, after booting the laptop without the second screen, it always assumes the second monitor and the laptop LCD are aligned @ the top and not at the bottom.

To help visualize this:

Default Alignment by XP

|LCD| |KDS|

|LCD|

Actual Alignment

|LCD|

|LCD| |KDS|

So. my question is:

Is there a way to have the second monitor align with the laptop LCD at the bottom by default. Or, is there a way to have the screen alignment saved in a profile?

Thanks in advance.

You could try to create different hardware or windows users profiles. One for with the 2nd monitor and the other for without. Or rearrange the monitors?