Default Monitor at startup

Save and easily switch between Windows multi monitor configurations

Status: Beta

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Default Monitor at startup

Forum: Feature Requests

Creator: David Meek

Created: 2016-07-23

Updated: 2024-10-10

David Meek - 2016-07-23

Hi,

Love this app. Its great for switching monitors when gaming. One suggestion though is to add an option for one profile to be the default at start up.

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Martin - 2016-07-23

This sounds like a pretty useful option, I will add it to my ToDo list. Currently I, however, have only little time for programming, so I can't give you any possible release date. Might take a few months until I find the time to get on it.

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AdK - 2017-08-09

I would love to see that feature as well! I have been trying to set this up with a windows task, pointing to monitorswitcher.exe including parameters. That did not work. Only option was to put a link into autorun, but then it only loads when a password for the user is typed in. It would be really useful, if monitor switcher could set the resoultion even on lock screen.

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- Martin - 2017-09-03
  
  Sorry, still haven't had the time to implement this. Not sure if setting the resolution is possible at all. I doubt it as it would enable lots of security problems.
  
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Mikhail - 2023-08-17

Yes, this feature would be very useful. My third (gaming) monitor stays rather far from PC and when I start PC in the morning (for work) I constantly forget (fore some time) - why my main monitor has no image - so I have to login first on gaming monitor (near the sofa) then return to my desk.

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Cyril Préaudot - 2023-09-13

+1

I'm trying to achieve something similar with a Local Group Policy calling monitorswitcher with my default profile on startup, but I didn't find a way to make this work.

Same for task scheduler...

The only way I found is to put a batch file in shell:startup, but this happens to load very late, so that's not what I want.

Last edit: Cyril Préaudot 2023-09-13

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Chris - 2024-10-10

I ran into this issue as I wanted the default monitor profile to load at startup before the user actually logs in. This seemed like a bad way to go about it so instead I created a batch file that I'm calling when the computer shuts down! In task scheduler you can hook into an event with:

Log: System
Source: USER32
Event ID: 1074

This way your default monitor profile will be loaded at startup even if you're going about it a backwards way.

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