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Disappearing Windows sorted

Have you ever had a window somehow get moved around so that its title bar was off the screen preventing you from dragging it back with your mouse?

This doesn't happen very often but when it does it's really frustrating if you don't know how to get it back. I've even seen (or, rather, not seen!) windows that were completely off the screen - you wouldn't even know that program was running except that it's still in the Alt-Tab list and its taskbar tile is there.

There are two ways to fix this:

First way

• Alt-Tab to the offending application,

• press Alt-Space. This brings up the pop-up menu you get when you click normally on the application's icon in the top left corner of the window. This pop-up menu will *always* pop up on the screen regardless of where the window actually is.

• Select the item that says Move.

• Now press any key (except Escape) and the window will be "locked" to your cursor letting you drag it around without having to hold either of the mouse buttons. You can even drag it around with the arrow keys instead of the mouse at this point.

• Now just move the window where you want it and press either mouse button to end this move mode and "drop" the window.

 Method two

• right click the taskbar tile for the missing program and select “move”

• use either the arrow keys or your mouse cursor to position the window where you want it.

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