On: State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a...

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This does work, however it’s really not ideal for Windows machines using a dock (which is usually the power connection) and external monitors. If you unplug first, all your windows get moved to the single laptop display, but if you close the lid first, everything is where it was when you resume.

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I wonder if switching to a different user before undocking might somehow insulate your main-account desktop from the shift.

I remember there used to be utilities that could save and restore icon positions, but perhaps that was only for good versions of Windows.