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brexitfan  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 18, 2018 10:50:58 PM(UTC)
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Windows 7 causes open applications to display stacked in top left corner and won't stay in locations where you left them. After screen locking or minimizing applications, once they reopen, they resize to the upper left of the monitor and you are forced to move them back where you need them. I have tried several microsoft forums for help and no trick seems to work. Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers!
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#2 Posted : Wednesday, December 19, 2018 3:48:42 PM(UTC)
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Is this computer in question attached to a KVM by chance?

Reason I ask is because I have seen this behavior happen when the computer sees a display as disconnected it internally resizes the "screen" size to 0x0, and when the screen size is smaller than the current window layout arrangement it rearranges or stacks any open windows to within the available screen space. When the screen space is 0x0, it stacks everything in the top left corner. When the screen comes back and Windows recognizes the screen size is back to normal, the display size (think desktop) is resized correctly, but it does not restore application window placement. On machines with KVMs this happens sometimes when switching to another computer. What makes this frustrating the most is that it appears to be intermittent; sometimes it will and sometimes it won't happen. Sometimes a better quality cable can help or an updated driver, but usually it's how the signals are transmitted or processed at the hardware level.

Another common way this manifests itself is on a machine with multiple monitors. Take the scenario that you are logged in locally and have windows spread across both screens. You then lock the computer and remote into it from another computer with a single monitor. When you do so, all open windows get squished into the available screen space. That's a Windows thing, not an RDP thing.

So in short, based only on what you've told me, I think the monitor is being momentarily disconnected (or at least according to Windows) just long enough to trigger a rearrange, which is usually about 1 second. Replacing any KVMs attached might help, as would upgrading to Windows 10. Windows 7 does signal processing a little different than Windows 10 and that subtle difference may be enough to make the issue go away. If not an option, a dedicated monitor may be the only workaround.

Hopefully that answers your question

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#3 Posted : Wednesday, December 19, 2018 5:24:01 PM(UTC)
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Hi Mike!

Thanks for the quick reply. I think I may have solved it today. Just to clearify for you. No kvm is involved on this workstation and it only has one monitor attached. I swapped the monitor cable (which was a DVI-D cable with an adapter to display port attached to the video card) with another straight display port cable which has the display port on the video card end and the mini connector on the monitor end. This seems to have fixed the issue but I will give it a few days of running and logging in and out to verify that is the fix. I’ll let ya know how it goes. Thanks for the great ideas to try. I’m leaning toward a driver issue if this doesn’t solve it. Have a great week!

Cheers!

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#4 Posted : Sunday, February 24, 2019 4:06:54 PM(UTC)
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Hi Mike,  I wanted to follow up on the display issues. I finally solved it and discovered it wasn't a driver issue so much as a display settings issue it seems.  I checked the windows display settings and they were different from the Nvidia card software display settings.  I changed the resolution settings to match on both windows display and the Nvidia card software  and it seems to have fixed the problem.  

Sorry to have taken so long to get back wtih you on this. I've been on travel and wanted to let this solution burn in a while to confirm its fixed.  Still using just a single monitor on this workstatation and its direct connected to the video card.  It turns out it doesn't matter which high res dual link cable I used. DVI-D cable with display port adaptor on one end or a straight display cable.   Now that the resolution matches on both the windows display and the Nvidia card software the application rearranging problem has gone away no matter which cable I used.   Cheers!    

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#5 Posted : Friday, December 11, 2020 6:42:44 AM(UTC)
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