If you've ever had a window somehow get moved off your screen, y'all know information technology tin can be frustrating non being able to drag it back. We've got a couple of means you tin can move these rogue windows back to your desktop, though.

This little trouble tin can happen for a couple of different reasons. The most common is if you have a secondary monitor that is sometimes hooked upwardly and sometimes non—something that's pretty mutual for laptop users. Sometimes, if y'all disconnect the secondary monitor without turning off the "extend desktop" setting in Windows or moving your windows back to your master monitor first, windows that were on the 2d monitor can get stranded. This can even happen with the new, more multi-monitor-friendly settings in Windows 8 and 10. This off-screen window problem can also happen sometimes if an app moves a window off screen and doesn't move it back. But nosotros have a couple of tricks that tin can help.

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Get Hidden Windows Back with Window Organization Settings

The easiest way to get back a hidden window is to only right-click on the Taskbar and select one of the window arrangement settings, like "Cascade windows" or "Show windows stacked."

The "Pour windows" setting, for example, will immediately arrange all open windows in a cascade, moving all windows back onto the primary screen in the process.

Go Hidden Windows Back with a Keyboard Trick

There's besides a simple keyboard trick y'all can utilise if y'all don't want to rearrange all your windows. First make sure you've got the off-screen window selected as the active window. You tin exercise this by pressing Alt+Tab until that window is active or clicking the associated taskbar button.

After you've got the window agile, Shift+right-click the taskbar button (because but right-clicking will open up the app's jumplist instead) and choose the "Move" command from the context carte.

At this point, annotation that your cursor changes to a "Motility" cursor. Now, you can use your arrow keys to motion the window. You should likewise just be able to tap whatsoever of the arrow keys and and so motion your mouse slightly to have the window pop back onto the screen.

This trick volition work on any version of Windows, but note that on versions earlier Windows 7 you lot just need to right-click the taskbar push instead of Shift+correct-click to get the context menu. It'south a handy little trick for solving an somewhat rare—simply definitely frustrating—problem.