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69yeeterbeater69

Dell Display and Peripheral Manager SUCKS

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Hi everyone just a quick question. I finally updated to the newest version of DDM and as it turns out updating before reading online reviews was a terrible idea.

Personally I do somewhat like the layout over the previous versions, but there are a few things that make me want to uninstall.

Firstly, is there any way to prevent the application from auto starting? It does not show up in task manager in startup apps. It's not like previous versions where there is a setting that can be toggled in app so I am not really sure where to start. I also cannot find anything online for the life of me.

Something else that really sucks is that it will continuously run in the background. Even after I have force quit the application, it will somehow start itself up after a few seconds. This leads to the easy arrange feature being constantly on and is incredible annoying when I just want to drag my window to another screen (I know holding shift can temporarily toggle the feature, but I want a way to permanantly toggle the application on/off as needed).

Is my only solution to downgrade back to a previous version? Thanks in advance

Posted Aug 4, 2025, 4:34 PM UTC

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