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From: Karl E. Peterson on 11 Dec 2009 15:00 I just noticed today that the copy of FrontPage 2003 I installed in an XP Mode VM is restricted to the primary monitor (#1) on a dual-monitor system. If I try dragging it over to the secondary (#2) monitor, it just disappears off the edge never appearing at all on #2, and the drag is stopped when the cursor hits the edge of #1. Using a utility like UltraMon makes no difference at all, as it doesn't even see the virtual application. Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks... Karl -- [.NET: It's About Trust!]
From: Karl E. Peterson on 11 Dec 2009 15:05 Karl E. Peterson was thinking very hard : > I just noticed today that the copy of FrontPage 2003 I installed in an XP > Mode VM is restricted to the primary monitor (#1) on a dual-monitor system. > If I try dragging it over to the secondary (#2) monitor, it just disappears > off the edge never appearing at all on #2, and the drag is stopped when the > cursor hits the edge of #1. Using a utility like UltraMon makes no > difference at all, as it doesn't even see the virtual application. > > Any thoughts or ideas? Classic. Post, then immediately "discover" the answer. I had the monitors configured like this: #2 #1 Turns out, they needed to be like this: #1 #2 Dumb! But, whatever. Can anyone fathom a reason why the brilliant folks at MSFT apparently can't cope with negative screen coordinates? -- [.NET: It's About Trust!]
From: David Wilkinson on 11 Dec 2009 23:39
Karl E. Peterson wrote: > Dumb! But, whatever. Can anyone fathom a reason why the brilliant > folks at MSFT apparently can't cope with negative screen coordinates? Dunno. But VMWare Workstation is the same -- the primary monitor must be on the left. -- David Wilkinson Visual C++ MVP |