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I have a laptop that runs Vista Mega Ultimate Amazing for Business 64-bit.

When at work, I connect a monitor via USB (which totally rocks) to the "left" of the laptop monitor. It's identified as monitor 3.

At home, I use an old CRT monitor that sits to the right of the laptop monitor. It's monitor 2.

Monitor 1 is, of course, the inbuilt laptop monitor.

Now at home I open a window, any window, on monitor 2. Then I come to work and plug in monitor 3. Anything I had open on monitor 2 is now stuck in unretrievable land. (Actually, it's probably anything that was minimised when I left home that belonged on monitor 2 will expand back onto monitor 2, even though it's disconnected)

How can I get those windows back onto connected monitors?

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related question (for dialogs with no entry on the taskbar): superuser.com/q/187176/45662 – yhw42 Sep 12 '10 at 4:08
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You still get the icon for the app down in your taskbar, yes? If so, select the icon for the app and hit alt-space and then M. That'll select Move for that window. Now use your keyboard arrow to move the window in the proper direction to the active monitor.

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Once you have hit at least on arrow key to start the move, you can them use the mouse for the rest, which unless the resolution of the screen that isn't present is small is usually a bit quicker. – David Spillett Jan 20 '10 at 0:33
That's a really good point, David. I had tried to test out my answer as I was typing it up, but I had to simulate by almost moving a window of the screen since I'm on a single monitor at the moment :-) – Chris_K Jan 20 '10 at 1:42
Thanks guys. The keyboard hint was all I was missing. Cheers! – RickMeasham Jan 21 '10 at 1:45
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right click on the taskbar button of the program, select Move, then use the arrow key to move window.

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