what windows setting do I need to change?

johnhoh · 16 Feb 2017

A while back I was trying to get Lotus 1-2-3 (its from 1998, the final release) to always start on monitor number 2 of my multimonitor setup. I tried out the program ultramon and made some changes with it but could not get it to do what I wanted, didn't really like the program, TRIED to reverse the changes it made, and uninstalled it.

Now, whenever I use the Lotus program, all of its dialog pop-ups will start initially on monitor 1, then after 1 second jump over to monitor 2 (I always run the program on monitor 2). I want this to stop.

I've uninstalled both lotus and ultramon and deleted all references to them (I think) in the registry, then re-installed Lotus, but these jumping dialogs are still happening. Obviously ultramon made some changes SOMEWHERE on my system, and am hoping someone can tell me where to look. Its been a few weeks now and I do not want to do a back-level restore to my system. Really just want to find where are the settings that cause these jumping dialogs. Thanks

MourningStar · 18 Feb 2017

try : SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

johnhoh · 18 Feb 2017

sfc comes up empty. Ultramon must have changed some setting somewhere.

johnhoh · 20 Feb 2017

any other thoughts on this?

mitchell65 · 21 Feb 2017

System Restore seems to be your only option. Why are you reluctant to do a system restore?

Megahertz07 · 21 Feb 2017

johnhoh said:

sfc comes up empty. Ultramon must have changed some setting somewhere.

Please explain sfc comes up empty. What do you mean by empty?

johnhoh · 21 Feb 2017

I do not have system restore turned on

Here's what I mean by sfc coming up empty.

Somewhere on the system is a setting that is making lotus relocate its dialogs

johnhoh · 22 Feb 2017

I've made some progress on this with the help of the guy who writes ultramon. Apparently I had a script running at boot up which caused the jumping dialog boxes, which ultramon installed but did not uninstall when I uninstalled the main program. So that part is now fixed.

Am still interested in figuring out how windows "remembers" what monitor to load an application on. Like if I open notepad, move it to monitor 2, then close it, how does windows know to open in on monitor 2 the next time? Must be a setting somewhere.