Change default new window location

[jbradleyharris]

I am putting together an interactive video customer assistance kiosk system. I'm using two monitors. One is customer-facing where the customer can see a webcam image of the remote support technician and the other, where the remotely located tech can open manuals, documents, and so on out of the customer's view, is hidden. With the displays configured with the desktop extended to the second monitor I was having problems with the video, which worked fine on the technician's (primary) monitor but became garbled on the customer's screen. I changed the display setup to span the two monitors, which fixed the video problem.

My problem now is that the default location for any new windows that don't explicitly draw themselves in a particular screen location open up dead center on the spanned display, half on the tech's monitor and half on the customer's.

Is there any way to change the default location where Windows opens a new window? I need any new windows to open either with the right border left of center or with the left border at the extreme left of the screen. Maybe an obscure registry setting?

 

[jbradleyharris]

I just rethought the problem. Please forget about the red herring of dual monitors. My real question is if I can change the screen coordinates that Windows opens new windows at.

Any help on this would be hugely appreciated. Picture a corporate food chain with me as the littlest fish

 

[rclarke250]

Have you tried a 3rd party video display program like ultramon? It has a lot more flexibility than the dual view program built into winxp.

check here.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/northrup_multimon.mspx

 

[linney]

This overview discusses features of windows such as window types, states, size, and position."

Window Features

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632599(VS.85).aspx

I don't know any Registry Key other than something in this area but I don't think there is much help in there for windows positioning.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics