Ever tried to open a program or dialog box to discover that somewhere it has opened, but is off the edge of your monitor and you can't grab it and bring it back? I'm not sure exactly how this happens half the time, but most commonly I've seen this happen when you have two monitors and then one of them is taken away, or your screen resolution changes enough that the program opens off screen.
No worries. There is a simple trick to getting it back, and it works with any program under windows (as far as I'm aware of).
Lets say your working in 3ds max and you've opened the render dialog box. You know its opened, but its off screen. Here is what to do....
1. Click the render dialog button again. You want to make sure that the dialog IS for sure open and is the currently active window.
2. Don't touch your mouse...Press Alt+Spacebar.
3. At this point you may see a drop down window open up....If not its still open, its just off screen too. I've seen this happen both ways.
4. If you can see the drop down use your keyboard arrow keys and highlight "move" and press enter. If you can't see the drop down...Hit the down arrow once. "Move" is usually the second item from the top of the list.
5. Now you need to lock the window to your mouse. You can do this by hitting the "left" arrow key on your keyboard (at this point you still have not touched your mouse again).
6. Now you should be able to move your mouse and the window will be locked to it. So you can move the window back on screen.
A friend and co-worker of mine back at Blur showed me this trick years ago. Thanks Dave!
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You are my hero for this.
A little more reliable method that I use is; instead of guessing at how many times to push the arrow key down to get to "Move" you can hit "Alt + Space" followed by "m". Hitting "m" will start the Move process.
awesome hint, thanks
THANK YOU!
This had been stumping me for at least two weeks ... huge thank you ... funny to see that little bastard window floating around after locking the mouse on it lol ... thought you could get away, did you?!? Well you were right until today...
This is awesome. It works, but my window is invisible... Yeah. When I do what you have in the directions, it works, but no window appears. When I minimize the window it shows. But when I maximizes it again, poof gone. But it does move to where I want it to. Any ideas would be awesome.
Huge! thanks alot
..what Bruce said!
It's 2.50 am, and you just saved my life with this. Thanks. :)
Let me know in which direction I should bow to you. Thanks.
Thanks so much
Really helped me
Totally forgot about the alt+space function
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Thanks! Amazing.
But why do we have to resort to tricks like this? Poor design in Windows!
A lifesaver! Thanks for posting this!
The little of time it too you to write about how to fix this issue has saved my day and my sanity. Thank you sir.
Thxs for the help, but I'm using a program, that doest recognize the command "alt+spacebar", is there any workaround to get the same menu using a diff key combination ??? thxs
this helped me in a time of desperate need, thanks so much! there is a command on a mac called gather windows which is super helpful for switching to dual screen and single screen a lot.
you are a life saver!!
man, you saved my life :)
thank you very much
For months i was lost. Thank you zillions .. you my hero man
Thanks!
I was using Windows-RightArrow to find lost windows (in Win7) but that didn't work for my non-resizable dialog whose title bar was above the clouds... Your tip worked like a charm.
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