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ewemoa:
You have successfully made me open notepad and try press F1 to F12... What a joke. ;D
-tslim (March 20, 2013, 09:25 AM)
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He he -- I confess to having tried this too :)
Edvard:
A handy combination that I had to search like hell to find. If a program's window disappears from the screen but it is still open - meaning the window has moved to a location off the screen:
Alt-Tab to the missing window, then Alt-Space, M, then any arrow key. Now move your mouse and the missing window will suddenly pop back onto the screen.
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-J-Mac (December 01, 2012, 10:15 AM)
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I wonder if I can make an Autohotkey macro to do it. Then I wouldn't have to remember it with my brain.
-dojibear (December 06, 2012, 03:42 PM)
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How's this? Control+Alt+Shift+S to invoke:
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-ewemoa (December 06, 2012, 11:07 PM)
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When I've had that happen in the past, I kept an autohotkey script on my desktop that would grab the last active window and center it. So I would select the hidden program in the taskbar, and hit the script, but I agree a custom hotkey would be better.
Since abandoning Windows, I don't have a copy to reference, but this may do the trick, anyone care to test?
--- Code: Autohotkey ---WinActivate ; grabs the [url=http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/LastFoundWindow.htm]Last Found Window[/url]WinMove, (A_ScreenWidth/2)-(Width/2), (A_ScreenHeight/2)-(Height/2)
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