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Display Priority with older Monitors

I have a MAME cabinet with a traditional CRT monitor inside it.   I like this because it fits my bezel perfectly, and gives the old school feel of traditional coin op arcade machines when using it with MAME.  I've resisted upgrading to an LCD, even though I'm limited to 4x3 aspect and a VGA connection.  In my mind a new display would be a downgrade. However recently I've noticed a problem.  When connecting my MAME PC to my Home Theater projector via the HDMI port on my video card, Windows 10 would always default to the Projector as the default display when resuming from sleep, or if the Projector was on during boot. What I wanted was for the VGA display to be the default ALWAYS (Display 1 in Windows) and for the Projector to only be enabled when I chose to do so.  A non active HDMI switch worked (physically severing the connection to the projector when not in use) but this was not ideal. After some research I found that video card bios have a locked i...