If you've always had a window somehow get moved off your screen, you know it can exist frustrating not being able to drag it back. We've got a couple of ways you tin move these rogue windows back to your desktop, though.

This little trouble tin happen for a couple of different reasons. The most common is if you have a secondary monitor that is sometimes hooked up and sometimes non—something that'due south pretty common for laptop users. Sometimes, if you disconnect the secondary monitor without turning off the "extend desktop" setting in Windows or moving your windows back to your main monitor get-go, windows that were on the 2d monitor can become stranded. This tin can even happen with the new, more than multi-monitor-friendly settings in Windows 8 and x. This off-screen window problem can also happen sometimes if an app moves a window off screen and doesn't motility it back. Only we have a couple of tricks that tin help.

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Become Hidden Windows Back with Window Arrangement Settings

The easiest mode to go back a subconscious window is to just right-click on the Taskbar and select ane of the window arrangement settings, similar "Cascade windows" or "Show windows stacked."

The "Pour windows" setting, for case, will immediately suit all open windows in a cascade, moving all windows back onto the main screen in the process.

Get Subconscious Windows Back with a Keyboard Flim-flam

There's likewise a simple keyboard play tricks you tin use if you don't desire to rearrange all your windows. First make sure you've got the off-screen window selected as the active window. You lot can do this past pressing Alt+Tab until that window is active or clicking the associated taskbar button.

Afterward yous've got the window active, Shift+correct-click the taskbar button (considering just right-clicking will open the app's jumplist instead) and cull the "Move" command from the context menu.

At this point, note that your cursor changes to a "Move" cursor. At present, y'all can use your pointer keys to motion the window. Yous should also just be able to tap any of the pointer keys then move your mouse slightly to have the window pop back onto the screen.

This fob will work on whatever version of Windows, but annotation that on versions before Windows 7 you just need to right-click the taskbar button instead of Shift+correct-click to go the context menu. It's a handy little trick for solving an somewhat rare—but definitely frustrating—problem.