Pcbnew opens on wrong monitor (laptop + external screen)

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I’m running 5.1.6. Pcbnew on windows 10 laptop (1600x900) with 1920x1080 external monitor. Before I upgraded to 5.1.6 (I think I was on 5.1.5), when I ran pcbnew or eschema on the external monitor it would open there next time I opened the corresponding program. Now, it always opens on the laptop (1600x900) monitor. I looked at the pcbnew file in C:\Users\klohr\AppData\Roaming\kicad and noticed
PcbFramePos_x & PcbFramePos_y are getting updated but the y value is negative. This is what I get after moving the pcbnew window over to the external monitor and shutting down pcbnew:
PcbFramePos_x=1592
PcbFramePos_y=-194
PcbFrameSize_x=1936
PcbFrameSize_y=1056
PcbFrameMaximized=1
But when I open pcbnew the next time, it opens on the laptop monitor again. And the pcbnew file is overwritten with the following values:
PcbFramePos_x=-8
PcbFramePos_y=-8
PcbFrameSize_x=1616
PcbFrameSize_y=876
PcbFrameMaximized=1

Any thoughts?

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With the caveat that I don’t use Windows, it might be a Windows setting for the preferred monitor for an application, a search returns videos purporting to solve the problem. You may have to set it whenever you update the application.

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