If you've ever hooked up your laptop to a secondary monitor and then
disconnected without remembering to move the windows back to the
primary desktop, you've probably encounted this problem:
The application is running. You can see it in the taskbar, but you
can't see it on the screen, because it still thinks it's running on the
secondary 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 trick to get around this. First make sure you've
alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it once to bring it into focus.
Then right-click on the taskbar and choose Move
At this point, you should notice that your cursor changes to the "Move" cursor, but you still can't move anything.
Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move
your mouse, and the window should magically "pop" back onto the screen.
Note: For keyboard savvy people, you can just alt-tab to the window,
use Alt+Space, then M, then Arrow key, and then move your mouse.
This should work on any version of Windows. It's really amazing how many people are not aware of this little trick.
Note: For more Windows Vista Tips, Tricks & Tweaks.
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