"Quick resolution swaps in taskbar" (QuickRes)

[SMG999]

I guess I'll go first wirh this one...

Wouldn't it be great to way to bring QuickRes into the 21st century by not merely being able to quickly change resolution like the QuickRes of old but actually to quickly change the layouts of multiple monitors and virtual desktops.

With mobile users docking into different monitor setups between home and work and in between it's always a hassle to keep readjusting the monitor positions each time. Perhaps even have various triggers available such as Wi-Fi network or a specific network dongle being plugged in to know what kind of layout your'e plugging into and set the layout for you.

Deploy the layouts over Azure AD so each desk in your organisation already has the layout preconfigured.

I have used Multi-Monitor programs before but none of them have been able to set layouts which move the taskbar onto the non-primary monitor for you - you have to drag and drop it back yourself after changing layouts.

It would be like the WIN+P Projector menu on steroids.

[dxgldotorg]

I used to depend on MultiRes from EnTech Taiwan however lately it crashes in multi-monitor scenarios making it useless unless I unplug my second monitor.

[eshy]

From my experience going between a few different setups with my laptop, Windows 10 usually remembers the last configuration I used when the same display monitors were plugged in.

This would be a nice solution for when it doesn't or if you want to quickly switch to another setup.

Being able to save a couple of layouts, a little like workspaces in some apps, and switch between them would be helpful as well.

[tazle]

Personally I have found the layout / resolution memory to work perfectly adequately in Windows 10. However, the same cannot be said about window positioning. Simply undocking and re-docking my laptop means I'll spend the next three minutes dragging windows around to where I want them.

[SMG999]

Sometimes I rearrange monitors physically so that even when Windows 10 remembers, it is no longer accurate, but the biggest annoyance is that the Taskbar location keeps moving back to the Primary Monitor. Even just RDP to my PC and then going back the Console will reset the Taskbar location.

[crutkas]

Tracking issue in #1052 as the main issue for PowerDisplay. the issues are xref'ed so we can refer back to it.