Here is another one of my slight annoyances with external displays on Windows (I’m sure any generation OS suffers from these problems). The problem is how Windows decides to position the screens. I use a 22” monitor with my laptop. The resolution (and size) of my laptop screen is much smaller, so there isn’t a direct mapping from pixels on the monitor, to pixels on my laptop screen. Windows doesn’t try to do any scaling (i.e. the top of the monitor goes to the top of the laptop screen) and that’s fine by me. Instead, you can position where your screens are relative to one another, which I actually like. It makes the movement of the mouse a bit more physical and what I’d expect.
For some reason, Windows decides to align the screens along the top. That is, the top of both the monitor and the laptop screen correspond.
I don’t know about you, but my laptop doesn’t float. When I sit my laptop next to my monitor, it looks more like this:
Note: I know there exists third party software to solve this. I think it should have been thought through correctly the first time. Also, I should only have to fix the problem once, not every time I disconnect and reconnect my monitor.
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