Use the mouse to move it where you will, click, and the window is placed there. What you’re seeing is an outline of the window you’re moving. Somewhere on the screen, you’re likely to see a partial outline of a window border.

The mouse cursor changes to the “move” cursor: Somewhere on your screen, you’ll get theĪlternately, right-click on the application in the task bar (in Windows 7 & 8 you may have to hold down the Shift key as you click):Ĭlick on the Move menu item. If any portion of the application window is visible at all, you can simply click on it and then type ALT+spacebar (hold down ALT while typing the spacebar once and then release both). This will come in handy in just a moment. System Menu? Yes, the application icon that appears on the far left is something you can click on:Īs you can see, there are the Minimize, Maximize, and Close items, as well as a couple of others: Restore (inactive since the window is in the “restored” state – neither minimize nor maximized), as well as Move and Size. In addition to the title, the title bar also includes the System Menu on the far left, as well as the familiar Minimize, Maximize, and Close icons on the right.

Here’s what I’m referring to when I talk about the title bar: It might be time to break out the keyboard interface.įor our example, I’ll fire up Notepad. If you’re used to using the controls on a window’s title bar to move, manipulate, or otherwise deal with the application, you’re kind of out of luck. Every once in a while for a variety of reasons, it’s possible for a window to get positioned such that its title bar – the bar across the top of the window with the program name as well as the Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons – is off the screen, becoming both impossible to see and impossible to click on using the mouse.Īlmost as common are windows that are completely off screen – perhaps due to unplugging a second monitor before moving all windows back to the remaining screen.

What is a title bar