Find the process thats disabling my second monitor

Find the process thats disabling my second monitor

I'm having a problem with my second monitor being disabled on some boots (seems totally random, but I would estimate it happens 30-40% of the time). When I boot the computer, I get to the Windows login screen and my second monitor is enabled and I can move my mouse around the second monitor. After I log in, I can move my mouse around the second monitor, right-click and get the shell menu, all the good stuff.

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Guest [Entry]

Use msconfig tool to disable your startup processes one by one. It is of course going to be more difficult to find the process because it happens at random... so my first try would be to disable all startup items and check if it is really some app that is causing it. If it still happens with all startup items disabled, look into services.

Guest [Entry]

"Look at the services you're running as well as the processes.

This is under Administrative Tools -> Services on XP."