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Thread ID: 16302	2002-03-04 20:37:00	Centering Windows messages with Dual Monitors	Guest (0)	Press F1

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37908	2002-03-04 20:37:00	I have recently started using a dual monitor configuration, and have found it very useful so far. (My specific setup is utilising a G450 and Win2K, in the dual head multi display configuration, side by side, giving a desktop of 2048x768 .) Annoyingly, though, many applications centre messages in the middle of the display - as just one of many examples: when logging onto Windows, the login window is half on one monitor and half on the other. Also, error messages often pop up in the centre of the desktop, over both monitors, rather than in the centre of the application that fired them off. Opening several windows and having windows cascade them down and right can be annoying too, because if I'd set the window size to fill one screen width, they start spreading onto the next, and I have to move each one of them. Is there a convenient way to ask Windows to <b>not</b> centre messages it would normally centre, but instead place them in a specific location? (Tell Windows where the 'centre' is.) Is there a convenient way to ask Windows <b>not</b> to cascade new application instances, but to overlay the new instance exactly? Regards Jeremy	Guest (0)
37909	2002-03-05 08:15:00	Don't know bout the commands, there is probably a program. But when I used 2 monitors I just dragged to where I wanted and it would open up there from then on.	Guest (0)
37910	2002-03-05 20:55:00	Indeed, once I position an application where I want it, it will start up in that same position. But, if I run a SECOND instance, then windows cascades them and I have to start fiddling around with dragging windows around. This is particularly noticable when you are reading a webpage and you wish to go to a linked page, but you want to stay on the current page also, so you Open In New Window. Error message boxes don't have any memory of where they were placed last time and so no matter where you rag them, they appear again in their default place - like the middle of the 2 screens. Ditto the Win2K login window, and other pop up windows.	Guest (0)
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