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Friday, July 4, 2008

Bring Misplaced Off-Screen Windows Back to Your Desktop

If you've ever hooked up your laptop to a secondary monitor and then
disconnected without remembering to move the windows back to the primary desktop,
you've probably encounted this problem:

The application is running. You can see it in the taskbar, but you can't see
it on the screen, because it still thinks it's running on the secondary
monitor. You try and use right-click, Move, but that doesn't do anything, and
the window doesn't move anywhere. You end up rebooting and cursing Microsoft.

There's a simple trick to get around this. First make sure you've alt-tabbed
to the window, or clicked on it once to bring it into focus. Then right-click on
the taskbar and choose Move.


At this point, you should notice that your cursor changes to the "Move"
cursor, but you still can't move anything.



Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse,
and the window should magically "pop" back onto the screen.

Note: For keyboard savvy people, you can just alt-tab to the window, use Alt+Space, then M, then Arrow key, and then move your mouse.

This should work on any version of Windows. It's really amazing how many
people are not aware of this little trick.

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