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What you need to know If you have two or more displays and set your machine to sleep, odds are the apps will change locations. Microsoft is aware of the issue and is fixing it. You can grab the fix right now if you're in the Windows Insider Program. Windows users with more than one monitor have long suffered at the hands of random app reshuffles. You set your machine to sleep, then wake it up only to see everything on the desktop entirely rearranged. All your careful organization mattered not to Windows 10 — until now. Multiple monitor setups can rejoice, as Microsoft has announced that it'...

(Photo by Clint Patterson on Unsplash) Have you ever woken a Windows 10 PC from its sleep state to find all your application windows have been rearranged? Microsoft has finally implemented a fix. Posting on the DirectX Developer Blog, Michelle Xiong, a Program Manage on the Graphics Team, admits how frustrating this unwanted application window rearrangement can be. "You have to re-drag application windows to the original, intended position pre-sleep. This is likely to lead you to feel frustrated because this happens almost every time when your system goes to sleep and takes time out of your p...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 update fixes apps shifting to the wrong gaming monitor Windows 10 doesn’t always play nicely with multiple monitors, often flinging apps from one screen to another when you wake the operating system up from sleep. After nearly six years of dragging apps back into place manually and makeshift solutions to curb the problem, Microsoft is finally doing something about it, announcing that apps will stay put in a future Windows update. Considering app arrangement was a core part of Windows 10 at launch, with the Snap Assistant and an assortment of keyboard shortcu...

April 29th, 2021 Steve Dent/Engadget If you use a multi-monitor setup on Windows 10 for gaming, work or because it's built right into your laptop, you may have noticed that apps can annoyingly move to the wrong display. Microsoft has announced that it's finally introducing a fix for the issue so that app windows behave more predictably, as reported by The problem happens when your PC wakes up from sleep, as all the apps on your secondary monitor can suddenly jump to your main or laptop display. "As a result, you have to re-drag application windows to the original, intended position pre-sleep...