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How To Move a Window on the Scrren When It is Off The Screen Move a Window on to Screen When Not Visible by Les Smith Print this Article Discuss in Forums
Here's a quick tip that can save you a good bit of frustration and embarassment with an undocked laptop that normally has an auxillary screen attached to it.
I normally run two screens, Laptop and auxillary, and I closed an application (Notepad) while it was on the secondary screen. If I undock my Laptop, and load Notepad, it loads off the screen of the Laptop. How do I get it back?
This is a fairly common problem, especially with docked laptops and secondary screens. You unplug your laptop to go to a meeting, only to find that an application is hidden and you want to bring it back onto your laptop screen without closing the application. Obviously, you right-click on the application on the taskbar and click the Maximize option. It will maximize on your main screen, but you can't move it while mazimized!
The same type of problem occurs when an application like Notepad remembers where it was when you last closed it. Guess what? That's where it will reopen.
To bring the application back to the main screen do the following:
- Alt-Tab to the desired window
- Press Alt-Space to open the Control Menu
- Press the M key for Move
- Press the left or right arrow key, depending on where you think the window is
Almost magically, the invisible window will move back onto your screen.