Bring Off-Screen Window Back Onto Screen

While using Windows XP, I had a window that had somehow fallen completely off of my screen. Right-clicking the window in the Taskbar and selecting Maximize brought it back, but there was no way I could get the window restored to where I could move it around my screen with my mouse.

Luckily, I found an article on how to Bring Misplaced Off-Screen Windows Back to Your Desktop

You just right-click the item in the task-bar and select Move. Then use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move it around. Once you press one of the arrow keys though, your mouse can take it over and you can then easily drag and drop the window back to the screen.

Sometimes the little things escape me. I would’ve probably never thought of these steps. I mean, who ever uses the Move option?

3 Comments so far »

by José, on September 12 2008 @ 12:28 pm

Hi,

This is an excellent tip.
Sometimes my screen gets like that, but I think it’s more like getting stuck. Afterall I got a Pentium II at 350 MHZ…

Best regards,

José
by Joe, on September 18 2008 @ 5:15 am

Nice tip. I have my taskbar at the top of my screen and sometimes windows open up at the very top of the screen UNDER my taskbar.

When I can’t move them by grabbing the side and sliding them down; I’ve had to move the taskbar to the side of the screen, move the window and then move the taskbar back.

This little tip will save that time and minor aggravation. Thanks!
by kevin, on November 26 2008 @ 2:25 pm

the window that went off screen on my compute didn’t have a move button

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