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I have been reading all the posts about blank screen problems but mine seems "pretty different" fr om everyone else?  

The remote machine I connect to has 3 monitors, and the local/client only has 1 monitor.   The remote 3 monitors are set horizontally, (lets call them "Left","Center","Right").  Both machines are running Windows 10.  Remote Utilities is v6.10.10.0, and I have installed the display driver.

When I do NOT turn on "blank screen", I see all 3 remote monitors on the single monitor of the client, (which I can stretch or scroll around).  This is how I want it to work, BUT, when I blank the screen, the displays drop down to one monitor only (moving everything to monitor "Center").  On the remote machine it also locks the machine.  It's very similar to how RDP works.  When I turn the blank off, it re-enables the 2 other remote monitors ("left"/"right") unlocks the machine, and things "mostly" move back to wh ere they should be, but many apps get messed up and now stay on the "center" screen including all the debug detached screens of Visual Studio.  Is there any registry settings/other things I can look for?  I am running the latest drivers (nvidia) etc.

I should add, if I change the remote settings "Do Not Capture RDP Sessions" it doesnt lock the screen, they are all blank, BUT it still compresses down to one "center" screen only.  Then I turn "blank screen" off, all 3 screens re-enable

To clarify, your first assumption is right.  Initially before blank screen, I see all 3 screens inside of the local client window (so compressed).  But when I hit "blank screen" its as if the left and right screen become detached at the remote.  I only see the center screen, (but all the windows and desktop icons move to the center screen as well).  It is very much like the monitors where detached).  When I turn the "blank screen" off, both the left and right come back, and "most" windows move back, (but some windows do not).  Meanwhile physically at the remote, all 3 screens do go blank.  I will send a video, but it was large so sending a youtube link

Polina,

Hi Polina,

Thanks for the update.  I would just like to give some details because some of this might not line up.  Previously  using Remote Utilities, "blank screen" used to work, in that it did not disable left and right, so its not "necessarily" Windows 10; unless it was an UPDATE to windows 10 that broke it, (that is possible).  I just want it to be understood that this "used to work" on Win10.  If your devs are thinking of using some of the advanced power management features of the monitor to "power them off" (like MCCS or DDC/CI) those features do not seem to work on my monitors :-( .  I was using RealVNC for similar functionality and it could turn off 2 of the 3 monitors; but actually now, none of them turn off (so that might help suggest Microsoft must have broken something in a Win10 update).

I hope you can resolve it, since its a pretty critical aspect for me.

Hello RU Team,

Have you been able to develop a solution for the blank screen disabling the multi-monitor setup? I am also seeing the same issue when the blank screen feature is on.

-Will