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Topic: «After locking and unlocking W10 all windows settings are gone » on forum: Technical Support   Views: 99
 
Florian Rahm
 
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Posted: 07/07/2025 20:54:48
 
 
 Hello,

after locking and unlocking W10, all my windows settings are gone. My windows appeear all on the wrong monitor / in the wrong tile.
After  pausing and resuming AMM via menü everything is fine and in place.
Is this a bug ? Is there an option to automate the pause and resume from amm after unlocking windows via logon Screen ?

Another Problem I have, is that the monitors are always on( setting is 10 minutes). I need to lock windows via Windows+L, and then, after 10 minutes they are goning black.

thanks

W10 x 64 22h2
AMM 8.15.3
4 Monitors
AMD Grafics
 
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Bogdan Polishchuk
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Posted: 07/16/2025 00:18:19
 
 
 Hello, Florian

Thank you for contacting us.

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after locking and unlocking W10, all my windows settings are gone. My windows appeear all on the wrong monitor / in the wrong tile.
It's probably because some of your monitors are seen by the system as physically disconnected after you lock the computer. Could you see whether the monitors are still presented in the standard Windows display settings after you turn them off via power button on the monitors (re-open the display settings if they're still open to make sure the information is refreshed)?

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Is there an option to automate the pause and resume from amm after unlocking windows via logon Screen ?

You can achieve the automatic pause/resume by using the combination of Windows Task Scheduler and shell command script containing the commands for Actual Multiple Monitors.

You need to create a .cmd Command File

launch Notepad and type the commands specified below, then save your file with a name of your choice BUT with an extension of .cmd. Make sure that the Save as type is All Files, and Encoding is ANSI.

pause/resume script commands:

Code
PUSHD "C:\Program Files (x86)\Actual Multiple Monitors"

ActualMultipleMonitorsCenter.exe suspend

ActualMultipleMonitorsCenter.exe resume

POPD


Then you need to create a task in the Windows Task Scheduler to run this file automatically when you unlock the computer: open Task Scheduler, click "Create Task...". You need to specify "On workstation unlock" as trigger for the task. Add a new action for the task and specify the respective .cmd  pause/resume script.

Once you create the task Actual Multiple Monitors should pause and resume automatically as soon as you unlock the computer.

You can learn more about the program command line parameters here.

Let us know if this solution works in your case.

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Another Problem I have, is that the monitors are always on( setting is 10 minutes).
Is it the setting in the Power Settings?

Do you mean when AMM is not running the monitors are turned off correctly?

Could you send us your Actual Multiple Monitors configuration files using the Send to Tech Support tool (AMM configuration module > Tools > Configuration > Send to Tech Support)? Add a link to this topic in the email.
 
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Florian Rahm
 
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Joined: 04/10/2012
Posted: 07/16/2025 20:49:23
 
 
 Hello,

I've turned off one of my 4 monitors (unbenannt.jpg), this one wasn't present anymore.  After turning the monitor on, it was present (4 monitors.jpg).

the cmd is now in use.


I have mailed you the confugration file
 
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