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Ok, I know I said this is only possible to a point but...
I have had some experience forcing an application that expects to run on the primary monitor to run on a secondary monitor.
The only way I can think of where this could consistantly work without dialogs popping up under MediaPortal is by placing Media Portal on the secondary monitor and having that set to the TV out.

We used a two or three head display at work for running remote security camera monitoring software. Most of the software wanted to run on the primary monitor and some couldn't be moved manually.
Here is a brief summary of how I got it to work.
I expanded the desktop to cover multiple monitors (in this case it was up to 3). Then I used an AutoIt script to move the otherwise unmovable app off of the primary display to one of the others. Some apps won't work on anything but the primary monitor btw. A few wouldn't display video anymore. Others try to move back to the primary monitor on certain events.

It might be possible to have a resident program make sure the MediaPortal windows stay on the secondary display but any such program is going to take some CPU time.
I could try to do this with AutoIt and see how well it works. I have a feeling that MediaPortal won't be as easy to do this with.

<blockquote data-quote="Tech Geek" data-source="post: 40464" data-attributes="member: 18181">Ok, I know I said this is only possible to a point but...I have had some experience forcing an application that expects to run on the primary monitor to run on a secondary monitor.The only way I can think of where this could consistantly work without dialogs popping up under MediaPortal is by placing Media Portal on the secondary monitor and having that set to the TV out.We used a two or three head display at work for running remote security camera monitoring software.&nbsp; Most of the software wanted to run on the primary monitor and some couldn't be moved manually.&nbsp; Here is a brief summary of how I got it to work.I expanded the desktop to cover multiple monitors (in this case it was up to 3).&nbsp; Then I used an AutoIt script to move the otherwise unmovable app off of the primary display to one of the others.&nbsp; Some apps won't work on anything but the primary monitor btw.&nbsp; A few wouldn't display video anymore.&nbsp; Others try to move back to the primary monitor on certain events.It might be possible to have a resident program make sure the MediaPortal windows stay on the secondary display but any such program is going to take some CPU time.I could try to do this with AutoIt and see how well it works.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have a feeling that MediaPortal won't be as easy to do this with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tech Geek, post: 40464, member: 18181"] Ok, I know I said this is only possible to a point but... I have had some experience forcing an application that expects to run on the primary monitor to run on a secondary monitor. The only way I can think of where this could consistantly work without dialogs popping up under MediaPortal is by placing Media Portal on the secondary monitor and having that set to the TV out. We used a two or three head display at work for running remote security camera monitoring software. Most of the software wanted to run on the primary monitor and some couldn't be moved manually. Here is a brief summary of how I got it to work. I expanded the desktop to cover multiple monitors (in this case it was up to 3). Then I used an AutoIt script to move the otherwise unmovable app off of the primary display to one of the others. Some apps won't work on anything but the primary monitor btw. A few wouldn't display video anymore. Others try to move back to the primary monitor on certain events. It might be possible to have a resident program make sure the MediaPortal windows stay on the secondary display but any such program is going to take some CPU time. I could try to do this with AutoIt and see how well it works. I have a feeling that MediaPortal won't be as easy to do this with. [/QUOTE]