Bring misplaced off-screen windows back

Bring Misplaced Off-Screen Windows Back

If you’ve ever hooked up your computer to a secondary monitor and then disconnected without remembering to move the windows back to the primary desktop, you’ve probably encountered 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.

Option 1: Manually Moving

Hold down the Alt key and hit the space bar
Select Move from the menu that appears

iii. Press the arrow keys to force the window to move position
iv. Hit any of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse, and the window should pop back onto the screen

Note: You can also hold down Alt-Tab to reveal open windows. Click on hidden window

Option 2: Cascade Windows

Right-click on the Taskbar
Select “Cascade windows”

This will immediately cascade all of the open windows like this, moving your window back onto the screen:

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