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    I have to boot Win 10 four times before the second screen will come up

    Well, not quite, the issue came back again. I did more internet searches and came across an entry that pointed me to a Win 10 setting for fast boot... Control Panel\Power Options\Choose What the Power Buttons Do\Change Settings That are Currently Unavailable" ... untick "Turn on Fast Startup"...
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    I have to boot Win 10 four times before the second screen will come up

    RESOLVED!!!! The issue turned out to be a bios setting on my MSI Z97 motherboard. I had re-flashed the motherboard due to a serious issue where I was not able to boot Win 10 at all; the re-flash had fixed the boot issue but apparently it also changed an obscure bios setting pertaining to...
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    I have to boot Win 10 four times before the second screen will come up

    Today Windows automatically installed 2021-04 cumulative update when I powered the computer on in the morning ...as the Windows update was being applied I noted that my second display was active, and when the update was complete and Win 10 came up, I had full use of both screens. But as soon as...
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    I have to boot Win 10 four times before the second screen will come up

    Tried that, many times (and checked what source the display is using), also does not make any difference when or if the second display was powered-on, before or after the computer power button is pressed. I even played with taking all the startup programs off the startup list (msconfig...
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    I have to boot Win 10 four times before the second screen will come up

    Not sure what happened, but for about a month my second display does not come up when the computer is booted... all my icons are on the primary display and the second screen is not connected/operable. If I power off the machine, then boot up 3 more times in succession (ie, 4 power-off/power-on...