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If you’ve anytime absorbed up your laptop to a accessory adviser and again broken after canonizing to move the windows aback to the primary desktop, you’ve apparently encounted this problem:

The appliance is running. You can see it in the taskbar, but you can’t see it on the screen, because it still thinks it’s active on the accessory monitor. You try and use right-click, Move, but that doesn’t do anything, and the window doesn’t move anywhere. You end up rebooting and cursing Microsoft.

There’s a simple ambush to get about this. First accomplish abiding you’ve alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it already to accompany it into focus. Again right-click on the taskbar and accept Move

Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse, and the window should magically “pop” aback assimilate the screen.

Note: For keyboard adeptness people, you can aloof alt-tab to the window, use Alt+Space, again M, again Arrow key, and again move your mouse.

This should assignment on any adaptation of Windows. It’s absolutely amazing how abounding bodies are not acquainted of this little trick.

Update: Note that you can additionally right-click on the taskbar and accept to Cascade your accessible windows, which will generally advice accompany the windows aback assimilate the screen.