How to Move Offscreen Window Back to Desktop in Windows 7 and Windows 8
Information
If you have a opened window that is offscreen from your main display, then this will show you how to move the offscreen window back on your desktop in Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Note
This would be a opened window that you accidentally moved off the screen to far to get to it with the mouse pointer, or if a laptop or desktop computer is plugged up to a temporary secondary monitor display and then disconnected without remembering to move the open window(s) back to the primary desktop display.
Here's How:
1. Hover the mouse pointer over the offscreen open window icon on the taskbar until you see it's
taskbar thumbnail preview display. (see screenshot below)
2. Right click on the taskbar thumbnail preview, and click/tap on
Move. (see screenshot below)
NOTE: You could also press and hold the Shift key, right click on the taskbar icon of the offscreen window, release the Shift key, then click/tap on Move.
Tip
If
Move is grayed out, then that means that the offscreen window has been minimized to the taskbar. Click/tap on
Maximize or
Restore and repeat step 2 to now be able to click/tap on
Move.
3. The mouse pointer will now turn into the move cursor
on the offscreen window, but you will not see this quite yet.
4. Press and release one of the
arrow keys on the keyboard.
5. Now drag the offscreen window back to your desktop by either moving the mouse or using the arrow keys.
NOTE: You may need to move the mouse around a bit until you see what direction the offscreen window is coming from.
6. When you have the window back to where you want it on the desktop, left click or press
Enter to drop the window into place.
That's it,
Shawn