Windows 7 showing programs on a monitor that doesn't exist.

I open a program and it opens on the monitor. I think restore the size, rather than having in maximum size.

The program disappears, but is still in the task bar.
I click on the program icon in the task bar to make it appear in the monitor, but the program shows to open on a non-existent monitor on the left of my monitor.

I have checked Display adapters in Device Manager and they are working ok.
I have checked Control Panel\Display\Change Display Settings and all looks ok.

Everything has worked find until recently. No real changes, however I suspect Microsoft Windows 7 is doing some dirty tricks after I have made multiple complaints about their poor customer support on the phones.

Previous issue possibly related: https://www.sevenforums.com/newreply....te=1&p=1861830

How old is that card? Have you downloaded the latest driver for it? Have you checked for a chipset and BIOS updates? Generally speaking when something screwy like this is going on a gpu driver update, and/or chipset BIOS update will fix the problem. Most of the time.

Hey,
I'm not sure if you have checked this yet, but if you right-click your desktop and select screen resolution it shows you a good few options relating to multiple monitors. You should be able to disable one, its possible that your display output thinks there is a connection, as previous poster suggested updating drivers should do it but for quick fix check if you can disable the "other" screen.

Check this tutorial for the easy way to drag an off-screen window back onto your primary monitor.

It usually is caused by your going from a 2-monitor environment to a 1-monitor environment, or changing video cards which now have dual-heads even though you only have 1 monitor, etc.

Anyway, the above tutorial is just a few steps, and allows you to right-click on the Aero preview window and select MOVE, and then use your arrow keys on the keyboard to slide the actual window over from off-screen (invisible) onto your true primary monitor.

Does this resolve your issue?