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Windows gets rearranged in Windows 8.1 and secondary monitor when computer goes to sleep

I have a MacBook Air 2013 with a secondary monitor installed through a mini-display port-HDMI cable. I also have bootcamp installed in Windows 8.1 64 bits with all the latest drivers installed. The problem that I have is that when the computer wakes after it goes to sleep, all the windows in the non-primary monitor moves to the primary monitor and I have to re-arranged them all over every time.


What I tried so far:

1. Installed the latests drivers from Microsoft and Intel HD Graphics 5000.

2. Look for the

DMMEnableDDCPolling
in the registry. (not found only available for ATI cards)

3. Change the mini-displayport-HDMI cable for a new one that doesn't transmit the "power" so that computer do not detect that the monitor was shutdown.

4. Change the resolution on boths monitors to native resolution

5. Change the primary display from external monitor to laptop monitor

6. Changer HKLM\Software\Microsoft\TMM\UseIViewHelper from 1 to 0

7. Try to get an answer from Apple, Intel and microsoft support.


Similar threads where I found this info:

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3


PLEASE HELP! I Don't know what else to do!


This do not happend on MacOS, is happends only in Windows.


Thanks, Andres Rormoser.

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), Windows 8

Posted on May 7, 2014 6:01 AM

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May 8, 2014 6:38 AM in response to arormoser

The only solution that I found so far was to install Actual Window Manager, separate the secondary monitor in tiles, assign each window to each tile, add a shortcut to start/stop ActualWindowManager and every time the computer wakes up with the windows re-arranged I press the shoutcut and everything goes back to my predifined layout.


http://www.actualtools.com/?ref=aim814_prg

Windows gets rearranged in Windows 8.1 and secondary monitor when computer goes to sleep

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