I recently had to reinstall Win 8.1 on my home computer.  I normally use 2 screens, sometimes 3.  Since the resinstall, Windows correctly identifies each screen, and the correct screen is marked as default.  But all of my desktop icons are on a different screen.  The time/date, quick launch icons, and startup are all in the right (default) screen.

How can I get all my desktop icons to display on the default mo

Try Auto-arrange.

Alternately you may try UltraMon

How can I get all my desktop icons to display on the default monitor?

Drag them there?  <eg>

What do you have for Taskbar settings?

Thanks for the suggestion, but no, I have not tried this software.  I hesitate to install new software to resolve this issue before I exhaust all possibilities within Windows itself.  UltraMon does a lot more than what I need, and may not solve the problem, so I would like to find other solutions first if I can.

I had autoarrange turned on when this started.  I have tried turning it off, and that made no difference.  Neither did turning i

• Edited by colakid 11 hours 45 minutes ago