I’m using latest Windows 10. I have dual monitors and am working on software development. I move Visual Studio to second monitor to work on it.
When I lock wndows and leave computer and go somewhere and come back after 20-30 min both laptop and second external monitor is black and I need to enter my password. When I unlock the computer Visual Studio 2017 moves to the primary (laptop) diplay.
Everytime I have to move Visual Studio again to second monitor. Is there a way to solve this problem?
Solution:
A similar case on Microsoft Community mentioned a workaround, have a try.
- Start Control Panel –> Device Manager
- Select View –> Show hidden devices
- Expand Computer –> Monitors*
When you expand the Monitors you will see your current monitor (highlighted) and all the disconnected monitors (greyed out). You may see monitors with "non-PNP" and "PNP" listed as well. I believe these are aliases to your current monitor (at a lower resolution) before Windows installed drivers for it.
I uninstalled ALL the greyed out monitors. Right-click on these monitors and select uninstall. Keep only the highlighted monitor you are currently using.
- Uninstall all greyed out monitors (even non-PNP and PNP monitors)
- Reboot your system.
After doing this my windows don’t resize after my monitor goes to sleep. You can quickly test this by temporarily setting your monitor sleep time to 1 minute.
Settings –> System –> Power & Sleep –> Screen [1 minute]