Same laptop 2 locations with different multiple monitor setups?

[CLC]

Window's 10 pro laptop looking to travel back and forth, both sites have 3 monitors with different sizes and configurations as far as main monitor etc. I'm not seeing anything built into windows that allows you to do this besides going into display settings and changing crap every time you hook up to a new set of monitors?

The only thing I've seen so far that looks promising is a program called Actual Multiple Monitors, looks like you can do profiles and swap back and forth. Anyone have a better solution or use this actual multiple monitors program?

 

[mikeroq]

Back in the day I used AMM for dual monitor clients to give them a taskbar on their other monitor and the "swap monitor" button on the title bar.
Mostly since Windows added multi monitor task bars I've rarely used it.

Also used DisplayFusion which I think I prefer to AMM. I used to use it myself but since I went to Windows 10 just went native. But I can see it can do profiles of monitor configurations which would come in handy for having multiple setups.

 

[Markverhyden]

What's the built in graphics? Seem to remember some of them had something similar like profiles.

 

[SAFCasper]

Don't have an answer. Just dropping in because I foresee having similar questions in the not so distant future.

There is nothing built in to Windows can do this. Quick brainstorming I can think of a few possible solutions...

1) Don't overcomplicate. Just make a shortcut to ms-settings:display and let the user change it themselves. It's not that difficult and realistically takes 30s or less each time the user moves between sites. Surely that can't be more than a few times per day?

2) It could probably be scripted. You could make a script for Setup#1 and another for Setup#2. Train the user to run the relevant script. Can't see this being an easy solution and likely prone to bugs.

3) Maybe something AHK could do? Basically create small macros to open the settings app and make the relevant changes for each site. https://www.autohotkey.com/

4) Possibly a 3rd party program out there which does "Profiles" to switch between. UltraMon claims to do this, but I've never used it before so can't say anything for certain. Nvidia drivers used to have a similar feature but they removed it. Think it only ever worked on Windows 7 anyway.
https://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/overview/

 

[CLC]

Back in the day I used AMM for dual monitor clients to give them a taskbar on their other monitor and the "swap monitor" button on the title bar.
Mostly since Windows added multi monitor task bars I've rarely used it.

Also used DisplayFusion which I think I prefer to AMM. I used to use it myself but since I went to Windows 10 just went native. But I can see it can do profiles of monitor configurations which would come in handy for having multiple setups.

DisplayFusion looks a lot like AMM, thinking between the 2 one will do what I need. I need it to be super simple to change back and forth.

@Markverhyden Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620

 

[NviGate Systems]

I'm thinking back to my NT 4/5/6 days but didn't Windows uses to have hardware profiles you could load? That way a mobile user could dock and load a hardware profile for being docked. At least I think that was the reason behind it.

Useful feature, of course it's gone. It made too much sense.

 

[Markverhyden]

DisplayFusion looks a lot like AMM, thinking between the 2 one will do what I need. I need it to be super simple to change back and forth.

@Markverhyden Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620

The below is what I remember about Intel GPU's. Just really never played around with it much so I don't know if it'll have the features you want. Pretty sure you'll have to download a separate app to access the features.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005857/graphics.html

 

[carmen617]

Could it be done with different desktops from the task view menu? One desktop has the settings for location one, the other for location two?

 

[CLC]

They decided to keep their work desktop so now this doesn't matter but thanks for the input guys.