Start8 menu with NVidia surround confine task-bar to centre screen

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Hello, I'm hoping someone at Stardock will see this and get in contact with NVidia to coordinate with them on this issue. Current Nvidia drivers for Windows 8 have disabled the option to confine the task bar to the centre screen when running a 3 monitor setup. Word from NVidia forums is that they are working on returning this feature for Windows 8, but in the mean time a user has created a work around that patches the NVidia control panel to force the feature back on. This hack works great except that the start8 start menu appears at the top-left of the left screen instead of where it should be (above the start menu on the centre screen). Once NVidia re-enables this option it will be a simple fix for you guys to re-position where the start menu appears when running an NVidia surround setup with the 'confine task bar to centre screen' option enabled, right? If not, at least I am making you aware of the issue ahead of time :)

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I have alerted the developers to your post.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Sorry for double post  :blush:

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Thank you very much!

Here is a quote from the NVidia forum post that may help you in testing/reproducing the issue:

 

Quoting jtarle, reply 2

Cygnific wrote:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37345223/nvcplui.zip

If you dont like using the .exe file, these are the bytes to patch.

Driver version 314.14
*:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Control Panel Client\
nvcplui.exe v7.1.740.0 x64bit
MD5 = 52A1E96092EE0A0705BFAFE49ED46AD4

Offset @15237 "75 17" > "EB 17"
Offset @16D0A "74 14" > "EB 14"
Offset @57D2C "48 89 5C 24 20 55" > "C3 90 90 90 90"

There are still some things that needs a fix, but it will do for now. You need to reanable confine to taskbar and maximise to window on every reboot. Some start button tools might give problems also.

End of jtarle's quote