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RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:10:27 GMT

Thank you very much!

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:10:26 GMT

Thank you very much!

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:49:48 GMT

You can create a trigger using the "DisplayFusion Starts" event, and then add your monitor profile into the action menu. We have a guide on creating triggers here: https://www.displayfusion.com/HelpGuide/Triggers/

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:18:42 GMT

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The usage is as follows: DisplayFusionCommand.exe -monitorloadprofile "Profile Name"

More info on the command line switches here: http://www.displayfusion.com/FAQ/#commandline

Hi, I'm also trying to set a profile as default when I boot my machine. The FAQ link appears to be broken. Is this still the suggested way to accomplish a default monitor profile?

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:58:07 GMT

Ok, the next time the CPU usage is high, could you post, or email the info from the Troubleshooting tab to me at support@displayfusion.com?

Thanks!

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:45:44 GMT

I wrote earlier: "I eventually took the time to upgrade to v3.4.1 and notice very high CPU usage (~50%) and machine was unresponsive. I poked around and saw your other posts and upgraded to v3.5 Beta 1 and that fixed the problem".

I am sorry to report that the CPU usage problem is not fixed. :[
Rebooting fixes it temporarily, but after awhile CPU usage seems to increase steadily (?!?) and after 5 or 6 hours I need to reboot again.

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:11:15 GMT

Hehehe. Well hidden. Couldn't find it myself. Thanks for your prompt reply.

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:05:04 GMT

You sure can! In the Advanced Settings, just change the "Monitor Configuration: Don't Show Confirm Prompt" option to "Confirmation prompts are not shown".

Thanks!

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:26:02 GMT

Keith, you wrote: "Just wanted to follow-up and let you know that we've released DisplayFusion 3.4.1 Beta 1, which includes a command line switch for loading Monitor Profiles".
Amazing! A company that listens to suggestions from its customers and implements them so quickly! I am glad I purchased that product. Anyway I eventually took the time to upgrade to v3.4.1 and notice very high CPU usage (~50%) and machine was unresponsive. I poked around and saw your other posts and upgraded to v3.5 Beta 1 and that fixed the problem.
NOW, here my question:
I want to use that brand new switch as in:
C:\Program Files\DisplayFusion\DisplayFusionCommand.exe -monitorloadprofile "My Regular Profile"
and it works BUT Windows (7) asks me if I want to keep the profile and gives me only 15 seconds to answer. Of course when you reboot you get out of the room to get a coffee or some other beverage, right? So there is no one to answer the prompt and Windows reverts to my awful default profile.
Is there a way to force the profile on Windows without having to reply to the prompt within the 15 seconds delay?
Thank you very much for your time and your help. Great product. Keep up the good work.

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:41:19 GMT

Excellent, please let me know if there's anything else I can help with in the future.

Thanks!

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:04:31 GMT

I really didn't mean to hijack this thread, but I'm glad I got the problem figured out. After the initial diagnosis above, I searched Google again using "windows live mesh remote connection service monitor" and came up with this explanation

thefrugaladmin.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/monitor-changes-to-non-default-resolution-on-rebootcaused-by-startup-service/

which is much better. Not only does it work, but you can re-enable the service. Why MS had to hardcode the screen resolution parameters in the registry is beyond me. If you change ANYTHING, i.e. hardware, resolution or orientation, then you are going to have display problems I would think.

I'm gone for now, and I'll be poking around in DisplayFusion to check out all of the neat desktop things that it can do. Thank you.

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:56:08 GMT

Wow, good find! I'll have to keep that one handy in case anyone else reports a similar issue.

Thanks for your patience during the troubleshooting process, as well as for posting the solution! And of course, thank you for your purchase

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:54:10 GMT

Thanks, Keith.

Due to your earlier immediate replies, I purchased the Home License for DF Pro. Let me explain why I wanted to run the profile load during boot-up. I am running two monitors, both Samsung in Windows 7. Monitor 1 is the primary and it is in Landscape mode. Monitor 2 is in Portrait. Right after the User Logon screen shows up, both monitors flip. Monitor 1 goes to Portrait and Monitor 2 goes to Landscape. It is easy enough to click on a user account and type the password (sideways). During that boot-up (triggered by User Logon), the following should occur: -monitorloadprofile "DualMonitorSetup". According to the Task Scheduler log, the task executes successfully. However, the monitors are still whacked out of shape. Once all of the startup programs have completed, I enter the hot-key to do the "DualMonitorSetup", and everything goes to where it should be (except for the soon-to-be-fixed Portrait (Flipped) issue ).

2 Questions:

1) Do you have any idea what is making these monitors lose their orientation during re-boot? This all happened before I ran across DisplayFusion; and

2) Any idea why the hot-key works, while the DisplayFusionCommand.exe -monitorloadprofile "DualMonitorSetup" doesn't?

By the way, the command.exe thing does work when executed from a command prompt. I'm thinking that somewhere during that boot process, Windows isn't sure which monitor is which.

This is an update written about an hour after the above:
After about 7 months of playing with this, I finally found this thread:
http://windowslivehelp.com/thread.aspx?threadid=34baa1c7-181c-4431-8d9b-26802cf9e16a&page=1

It turns out that this whole problem is caused by Windows Live Mesh. The workaround suggested by the Windows user works, however the "fix" provided later in the post does not. At this point I have the Windows Live Mesh Remote Connector Service disabled via MSCONFIG, and all is well with my monitors at boot time.

I hope this helps others with this perplexing problem. My thanks to the original poster, eriklove

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:01:48 GMT

The Portrait (flipped) bug will be fixed for the next beta version

As for running DisplayFusionCommand.exe via Task Scheduler, you shouldn't need a timer. If DisplayFusion isn't running yet, it will be automatically launched.

Thanks!

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:47:35 GMT

I am attempting to use the monitorloadprofile switch in the 3.4.1 beta, and it is loading my secondary monitor in Portrait(Flipped) mode rather than Portrait as specified in the profile. Reverted to production version, and monitor loaded properly with hot-key.

On a side note, I am running the displaymonitercommand.exe via the Windows 7 task scheduler. Is there a delay time required? Does Display Fusion have to load before the command processor can run?

Loaded flipped with hot-key in the beta as well. Looks like it is just coded improperly.

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Just wanted to follow-up and let you know that we've released DisplayFusion 3.4.1 Beta 1, which includes a command line switch for loading Monitor Profiles. You can download the beta version using the link below:

http://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/

The usage is as follows: DisplayFusionCommand.exe -monitorloadprofile "Profile Name"

More info on the command line switches here: http://www.displayfusion.com/FAQ/#commandline

Thanks!

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:24:09 GMT

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:05:10 GMT

Keith: That was quick! Thanks.
Hopefully that will be quickly added to the software.

RE: Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:01:33 GMT

It's not currently possible, but good idea on making it a switch for DisplayFusionCommand. I'll add this to our list.

Thanks!

Monitor Profile: How to set a default Monitor Profile?

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:40:27 GMT

Everytime I boot I have to access "Monitor Profiles" and select "My Regular Profile". How can I automate this process so that the profile is automatically selected when I boot? Is there a set up somewhere to tell DisplayFusion "Use this Monitor Profile as my Default Monitor Profile" or perhaps a way to do this with the "DisplayFusionCommand" command line tool (in a StartUp batch file)?
Thanks!
BTW: Great software! Very useful with multiple monitors (I have 4) and much better than the competition. Congrats.