Moving window makes all applications disappear when laptop undocked

djwilson1

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I am running Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit on a Dell Precision M6700 laptop. Most of the time, I am docked and use two external monitors in addition to the laptop display. However, when I undock and am only using the laptop display, the following happens: If I use the mouse to move a window around at all, when I let go of it, all of my running applications disappear. The windows are no longer visible, the icons on the task bar are no longer highlighted, and they do not exist as running applications in task manager. They still exist as processes in task manager, though. I can kill them from there, but if I do not, they all come back upon redocking. This happens when I move any window except task manager.

Any help?? I have tried and failed to find a similar problem anywhere else.
 

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Laptop
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Dell Precision M6700
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Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit
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Intel Core i5
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16GB
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Google Chrome
Probably trying to show on the 2nd display which is not connected. No idea how to fix though.
 

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Windows 10 Pro X64
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Dell USB
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Probably trying to show on the 2nd display which is not connected. No idea how to fix though.

To test of ours doing this click on the open program you can't see then hold win+shift and hit a arrow key like right till the program appears if this works then yes when you undock it thinks you still have the second screen what does windows show in screen resolution does it show two screens?
 

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10 Pro x64Ryzen 9 3900X64GB(4x16GB) DDR4EVGA 1080ti FTW3
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PC/Desktop
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Custom
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10 Pro x64
CPU
Ryzen 9 3900X
Motherboard
Asrock x370 Tachi
Memory
64GB(4x16GB) DDR4
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EVGA 1080ti FTW3
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ASUS Xonar Essence STX (V4 Bursons), ODAC rev B, NFB-11, O2
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3xASUS PB278Q/R, Optoma HD142X
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3x1440p, 1080p
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512GB 850 EVO(OS, Programs)
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3TB (Downloads)
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MBAM, ESET
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