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

This little problem can happen for a couple of different reasons. The virtually common is if you take a secondary monitor that is sometimes hooked upwardly and sometimes not—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 kickoff, windows that were on the second monitor can get stranded. This tin fifty-fifty happen with the new, more than multi-monitor-friendly settings in Windows viii and 10. This off-screen window trouble can also happen sometimes if an app moves a window off screen and doesn't movement information technology back. But we have a couple of tricks that can help.

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Get Hidden Windows Back with Window Arrangement Settings

The easiest way to go back a hidden window is to only correct-click on the Taskbar and select one of the window arrangement settings, like "Pour windows" or "Bear witness windows stacked."

The "Pour windows" setting, for example, will immediately arrange all open up windows in a cascade, moving all windows dorsum onto the main screen in the procedure.

Become Hidden Windows Dorsum with a Keyboard Trick

There's also a simple keyboard trick you lot can use if you don't want to rearrange all your windows. Get-go brand sure you've got the off-screen window selected equally the active window. You can do this past pressing Alt+Tab until that window is active or clicking the associated taskbar button.

After y'all've got the window active, Shift+correct-click the taskbar button (because only correct-clicking will open the app's jumplist instead) and choose the "Move" command from the context menu.

At this point, note that your cursor changes to a "Move" cursor. Now, you tin can use your arrow keys to move the window. Y'all should also just exist able to tap whatever of the arrow keys so motility your mouse slightly to have the window pop back onto the screen.

This trick will work on any version of Windows, but notation that on versions before Windows seven y'all just need to right-click the taskbar push instead of Shift+correct-click to become the context bill of fare. It's a handy little pull a fast one on for solving an somewhat rare—but definitely frustrating—problem.