How to get lost windows back on Windows 8

November 8th, 2012 by admin Leave a reply »

If you are like me you have at least one monitor hooked up to your work computer or you have dual monitors setup. Either way, in my case I have a monitor hooked up to my work laptop via HDMI connection and I had it launching on the secondary monitor. I took my laptop home tonight and fired it up and Visual studio and lo and behold my applications window was nowhere to be seen, just the icon of it down on the windows 8 taskbar. In windows 7 you could just right click on that icon and then choose “Move” and then depending on where your other display extended, right or left, you could just press the arrow opposite that direction and in a couple of seconds your window would be back where you want it. Well in Windows 8 right clicking on an application in the task bar only give you choices to either close the app or pin it to the taskbar, which does me no good. What I found is if you just simply do an ALT-Tab or ALT-Space it will bring up the menu to choose “Move” and you are back in business, I hope this helps someone.

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