The joys of playing around
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For fun, decided to play with Windows sandbox. Activated it in settings. My monitors became unified, instead of a 'second screen.' Went into display settings and my primary and secondary screen were listed as "1 | 2", and there were three more screens listed as Intel hardware screens (or something like that). That was even without a sandbox running. Didn't find any way to unlink 1 and 2, so played with it a bit and gave up. Deactivated sandbox and screens went back to normal. Looked on the web and found a thing about going back to a previous driver. Still felt like playing, so went back to original Acer Intel driver (7 years old), and after reactivating sandbox, everything worked. But there were strange glitches playing videos, especially on YouTube, but could usually get things back by various easy actions, like hitting play again. Of course, MS decided to re-update the driver, so my system went back to 1 and 2 being locked in sync, displaying the same screen! Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some. You would think that after thirty years of engineering effort Microsoft would have things like this sorted out. You would be wrong!
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++
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For fun, decided to play with Windows sandbox. Activated it in settings. My monitors became unified, instead of a 'second screen.' Went into display settings and my primary and secondary screen were listed as "1 | 2", and there were three more screens listed as Intel hardware screens (or something like that). That was even without a sandbox running. Didn't find any way to unlink 1 and 2, so played with it a bit and gave up. Deactivated sandbox and screens went back to normal. Looked on the web and found a thing about going back to a previous driver. Still felt like playing, so went back to original Acer Intel driver (7 years old), and after reactivating sandbox, everything worked. But there were strange glitches playing videos, especially on YouTube, but could usually get things back by various easy actions, like hitting play again. Of course, MS decided to re-update the driver, so my system went back to 1 and 2 being locked in sync, displaying the same screen! Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some. You would think that after thirty years of engineering effort Microsoft would have things like this sorted out. You would be wrong!
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++
The main reason I bought a 55" 4k TV for use as a monitor was because I hate multi-mon. It causes headaches even if it were executed perfectly which it never is. Win+Arrows is my alternative to laying out stuff on multiple screens. I basically have 4 1080p monitors.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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The main reason I bought a 55" 4k TV for use as a monitor was because I hate multi-mon. It causes headaches even if it were executed perfectly which it never is. Win+Arrows is my alternative to laying out stuff on multiple screens. I basically have 4 1080p monitors.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Yeah, I use Win + Arrows all the time too, even with two screens! :laugh:
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++
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For fun, decided to play with Windows sandbox. Activated it in settings. My monitors became unified, instead of a 'second screen.' Went into display settings and my primary and secondary screen were listed as "1 | 2", and there were three more screens listed as Intel hardware screens (or something like that). That was even without a sandbox running. Didn't find any way to unlink 1 and 2, so played with it a bit and gave up. Deactivated sandbox and screens went back to normal. Looked on the web and found a thing about going back to a previous driver. Still felt like playing, so went back to original Acer Intel driver (7 years old), and after reactivating sandbox, everything worked. But there were strange glitches playing videos, especially on YouTube, but could usually get things back by various easy actions, like hitting play again. Of course, MS decided to re-update the driver, so my system went back to 1 and 2 being locked in sync, displaying the same screen! Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some. You would think that after thirty years of engineering effort Microsoft would have things like this sorted out. You would be wrong!
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++
Operating systems (all) rules: 1. You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You can't get out of the game. (anonymous)
>64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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For fun, decided to play with Windows sandbox. Activated it in settings. My monitors became unified, instead of a 'second screen.' Went into display settings and my primary and secondary screen were listed as "1 | 2", and there were three more screens listed as Intel hardware screens (or something like that). That was even without a sandbox running. Didn't find any way to unlink 1 and 2, so played with it a bit and gave up. Deactivated sandbox and screens went back to normal. Looked on the web and found a thing about going back to a previous driver. Still felt like playing, so went back to original Acer Intel driver (7 years old), and after reactivating sandbox, everything worked. But there were strange glitches playing videos, especially on YouTube, but could usually get things back by various easy actions, like hitting play again. Of course, MS decided to re-update the driver, so my system went back to 1 and 2 being locked in sync, displaying the same screen! Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some. You would think that after thirty years of engineering effort Microsoft would have things like this sorted out. You would be wrong!
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++
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I suspect it uses the same drivers as the main OS. But the fact that without the sandbox it works and with it the screen is screwed leaves a big puzzle in my mind.
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++