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I used slack on my laptop on my second screen. When I boot up my pc from Hibernation mode. It won't show the app Slack it tries to load it on my second screen. I have already tried this:

  • Win + or Win +
  • resize my screen to an other resolution
  • Alt + space and then move. I can't move it because it's no where on my screen

Does anyone have a suggestion instead of restarting my pc?

EDIT

After pressing ALT + SPACE or ALT + SPACE + M I got this menu.

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Let my translate the options:

  1. Move
  2. Change format
  3. Minimize
  4. Maximize
  5. Close

So what do I need to choose? If press move I get the move icon cursor.

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  • winlister is the best.. I tried the other tricks before, but this one works all of the time.. alt-space, etc. only works on some windows
    – Mikey
    Feb 24, 2020 at 13:43

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Just had this issue... here is how I solved it...

Click on the taskbar icon for the problem window.... to make it active.

Use ALT+Space or ALT+SHIFT+Space (depends). This should open the Move, Maximise etc. options.

Click the Maximise. You should now see the window.

Now drag it so its definitely on your current screen.... all fixed.

Good Luck

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  • The maximise fixed me on WIN10. However I did it a slightly different way by floating over the app in the taskbar wait for the small image of the running instance to appear above it. Then right-click on that. Then Select Maximise. Apr 25, 2019 at 15:53
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All of they above 'solutions' don't work for me on Windows 10.

I tried pressing repeatly WIN + D + <- that worked for me.

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    This worked for me
    – Pomster
    Aug 5, 2019 at 15:41
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You could try turning off the second monitor by pressing Win + P multiple times until 'Disconnect Projector' (or whatever it is called in Win 10) before hibernating.

You could also ALT + TAB to the Slack application while it is off screen, and press ALT + SPACE, m, then press one of the cursor keys. This will lock the application to the cursor and you should be able to use the mouse (without having to press any button) to bring it back into view.

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  • See edit because It doesn't work. Win + P multiple times I can't do that because I don't have my second monitor now
    – Steven
    Nov 10, 2017 at 7:52
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Just providing another method here: (Assuming using Windows 10)

  1. Press Win + Tab to enter the Timeline/Activity View.
  2. Right click on the off-screen window, then choose Snap to left or Snap to right.

The underlying mechanism is the same as other methods listed here, which is forcing Windows to position the off-screen window to a known and accessible location.

Hope this helps.

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  • Alt + space and then move. I can't move it because it's no where on my screen

I had this issue. In my case, after selecting Move, I could not drag the window back to the screen because no part of the window was on the screen. Clicking down to drag resulted in the window being deselected before the drag began.

However, Alt + space, selecting Move, and holding down an arrow key worked.

To find out where the window was, I repeatedly minimized and restored it by double-clicking its icon in the taskbar. Windows provided an animation that suggested it was on the far right, so holding down the left arrow key after activating Move brought it back in view.

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  • Another win for keyboard accessibility! Sep 30, 2018 at 4:24
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if you remember where it should be virtually (left or right) after pressing ALT + SPACE or ALT + SPACE + M you choose Move (Verplaatsen in your case) and then hold left or right key - the windows moves 1 pixel at a time so wait until it shows on your screen, that is how i got back a popup window in a program that did was not able to discover that the other monitor is gone and kept opening somewhere off screen without being visible on the task bar

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