How To Move a Lost Off Screen Window Back to Desktop In Windows 11

How to Move a Lost Off Screen Window Back to Desktop

How to move or find a lost off screen window back to the center of the screen and desktop.

Ever dragged a window off screen and lose it completely? It can happen with an external monitor hookup easily. Luckily, you can relocate an off-screen Windows applications without dragging and dropping.

First make sure you've alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it once to bring it into focus. Then right-click on the taskbar and choose Move. At this point, you should notice that your cursor changes to the "Move" cursor, but you still can't move anything. Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse, and the window should magically "pop" back onto the screen.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba,Lenovo, and Samsung).

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