Re: [guide-user] Guide 9 wants to use non-existent "second monitor"

Ted Blank Apr 24, 2018

Based on these suggestions, I've created a BAT file that deletes the "maximum.dat" file and then starts Guide, so I don't have to remember to do it myself.

So far no bad side effects seen.

Thanks for the good ideas.

Ted

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 1:22 AM, Bernd Klemt bernd.klemt@... [guide-user] <guide-user@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Hello,

I do have this problem also very often with my old XP notebook and a second
monitor at home but none at the observatory.

My early solution was to move all popup windows to the notebooks built in monitor
"before" disconnecting the second monitor. If I forgot one I couldn't see it.

But once I tried to disable the second monitor completely in the system control
panel (right click on an empty place on the desktop (WIN XP)) this also does the
trick.

Clear skies
Bernd

> I run into this problem quite often actually......
>
>
> The only fix that i have found is to find, and delete, the "maximum.dat" file in
> the Guide9 folder. It then forgets what the screen boundaries were and starts
> over fresh.
>
>
> I'm using XP and Windows 7 and both have the same issue.
>
>
> -Scott Kranz
>
>
> > On April 10, 2018 at 9:56 AM "Ted Blank tedblank@... [guide-user]"
> <guide-user@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a second monitor on my laptop, connected via a USB docking station.
> Before taking the laptop on a trip, and before disconnecting the second monitor,
> I change the Windows 10 setting to make the laptop the primary display. Then I
> disconnect the extra monitor.
> >
> > Even after I re-boot the laptop, when bring up Guide, right-click on a
> star and select "More Info", Guide 9 somehow remembers the old configuration and
> puts the "more info" pop-up onto the (now non-existent) second monitor - thus it
> is invisible. At that point all I can do is hit the Esc key to bring control
> back to the main screen, but I never see the "more info" pop-up.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea how to tell Guide that there is no longer a
> second monitor available? Is this a windows 10 bug? It must be something Guide
> is remembering, since this behavior survives even a complete power-off reboot.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ted

Bernd Klemt

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