Windows 10: How do you have 3 or 4 ACTIVE monitors in Windows 10

This question has been asked, and I have yet to find a suitable answer. I am sure that there are others that are just as frustrated with this, as I am.


In Windows 7, I had 4 active monitors, and after upgrading to 10, it will only allow 2 active monitors. The OS sees all 4 monitors, and you are able to activate any combination of those monitors, but only 2 at a time can be actively displaying os. This is not a driver issue, and my video card (Radeon HD 7970) has four display ports, (1 DVI, 1 HDMI, 2 mini-ports), which is obvious from being able to have all 4 active in Win7.


How do we set up Win10 to have 3 or more active monitors? Did Microsoft take this support out? And if they did, why? In this day, it is common to have more than 2 monitors active; one running media server, one running a game, one running gaming voice client, etc..


Thanking you in advance.

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AMD 7800 4 monitor problem since Windows 10 - SOLVED

In my case, I have found a solution to my myriad problems I was having with the AMD 7800 & 4 monitor setup. These have occurred almost continuously since first running 10 preview. It had come down to only being able to display 2 monitors on the 6
DP AMD 7800 card. I had to run the other two from the built in Intel 4600 with one on DP and the other HDMI. Running an Intel i7-4770K on ASUS Sabertooth Z87.



What worked:

• Remove the AMD 7800 card from my system. Running on the built in Intel 4600 with 2 monitors only.
  
• Uninstall ALL AMD/ATI stuff:
  • Using AMD uninstall utility (the normal method would not run)
  • Delete all AMD/ATI folders I could find, under "users" and in programs etc.
    and on the C: drive.
  • Run the REVO uninstallation tool and use advanced tools.
    • Remove all instances of AMD/ATI from the directory.
    • Run PCTools Registry Cleaner
    • Run REVO again and remove more from the directory.
• Called Visiontek the maker of the 7800 card. During 1 hour on the phone the very patient and knowledgeable tech walked me through a long list of troubleshooting steps. Which included:
  • Installing the 7800 card from AMD and booting up in VGA mode
  • Set the bios to use the external (7800) card.
  • Installed the AMD beta drivers
  • Swapping around cables, monitors and ports. Had variously 1 or 2 monitors of the 4 recognized then had 3 working and one recognized as a generic monitor but not active.
  • Shut down power to the system and unplugged the one monitor with was not active.
    
  • Pressed the power button on the inactive monitor 5 times and the start button on the computer 5 times to discharge capacitors that may have been holding up internal memory of invalid configuration.
  • Disabled the internal Intel 4600 GPU.
  • Uninstalled the inactive monitor and cold booted. Now only two monitors of the 4 active.
    
  • All 4 monitors now recognized correctly but 2 still not active.
    
  • Selected the inactive monitors and extended desktop to them one at a time.
    
• ALL four working on the external 7800 card and the built in Intel disabled.

WAS THIS MS, AMD, ASUS, or Visiontek's problem?

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Problem with my activation in windows 10 - Genuinity

Hi,

Thank you for posting your reply.

I suggest you to activate the copy of Windows 10 via phone by following the steps below:

• Press “Windows key + R” and type “slui 4” and press Enter.
• Select your Region/Country.
• Select the Phone Activation option, and hold on for a real person.

Hope the information is helpful.

Regards