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 s aware of the issue and intends to fix it (via The Verge). In a Microsoft dev blog entitled Avoid Annoying Unexpected App Rearrangement – Your PC Can Sleep Without Nightmares, post author Michelle Xiong details that the issue is technically referred to as Rapid Hot Plug Detect (Rapid HPD), and that multi-monitor headaches caused by it can be a thing of the past if you re in the Windows
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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 productivity.
The bug has an official name: Rapid Hot Plug Detect (Rapid HPD) and it specifically impacts DisplayPort multi-monitor setups when a Windows 10 system exits a sleep state. The windows have either moved around or end up clustered on one of your displays.
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 shortcuts, it’s largely been pushed to the wayside since. Rapid Hot Plug Detect (Rapid HPD) has been around since 2015, and is the reason why DisplayPort multi-monitor setups experience unwanted desktop rearrangements, according Microsoft program manager Michelle Xiong. It’s particularly problematic if you’re connecting the best gaming laptops to an external monitor, as they rely on power sav
April 29th, 2021
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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, Microsoft s Michelle Xiong explains. 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 productivity.