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Another important Windows tip

ewgfewgf
edited March 2008 in Chit chat
Following on from the Unlocker thread (Entitled "A vital piece of software for Windows is here "), here's another occasionally invaluable tip for people who use Windows; today, for the first time in a long while, a program that was running on my PC (an audio format converter) wouldn't reappear when I'd minimised it, instead remained invisible, and when I right clicked on it's Task bar icon I got the "EXIT, MAXIMIZE, MOVE" etc menu, but nothing would bring it back. Even exiting the program then reloading didn't help, as presumably the program saved it's on-screen co-ordinates when exited, and also presumably those same co-ordinates were somehow offscreen.

I've had this problem before, but very rarely, and usually exiting and reloading the program works, but not this time, so I googled the problem, and found the solution at:

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/467589

the solution being:

"If you press ALT-SPACE and M you can then use your arrow keys to move the window back into a viewable area of your screen. Alternatively, ALT-SPACE and X will maximize the application which will make it visible again too but if you don't usually run your apps maximized you'll probably have to retrieve the window again next time you close and re-open it."

following this advice, I used ALT-SPACE and M, then used the arrow keys (the mouse didn't help, only the arrow keys solved the problem) to bring the window back on screen, and now it's fine.

I just thought I'd post this, in case anyone else encounters this (thankfully infrequent) problem and doesn't know how to solve it.
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Comments

  • guesserguesser
    edited March 2008
    the alt space M shortcut is the same as clicking Move on the right click menu
    moving the mouse doesn't move it unless you use an arrow key once. once you have moved it one step with the arrow key, the mouse movement then moves the window.
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2008
    The best one was the Twins Media Player, from about 99. it's supposed to play everything, but instead removed any kind of browsing software from your computer when you ran it. All that was left was your background, you couldn't bring any options once you'd ran it. I did it once just cos' I thought sweet a cool video player, I did it twice by accident then I realised shit I've put that one that kills your computer on there.

    I laughed when my friend came back after loaning the disc and said my computer's fucked, I installed....I butted in and said "Twins media player? Yeah I should've told you about that" :D
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  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited March 2008
    I thought the tip would be "Avoid Vista at all costs" or "Switch to Linux". ;) I'd certainly endorse the first of those, and perhaps the second... :D
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