Application appears off screen

For some reason, notepad.exe starts up off the physical screen in some virtual location. As such I cannot use it. It's in the taskbar so I can kill it. Is there anyway to have it reset its top left corner so I can use it again?

notepad

Guy

Posted 2011-05-09T15:41:25.410

Reputation: 3 367

Answers

AltSpace, M. Then move it.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Posted 2011-05-09T15:41:25.410

Reputation: 100 516

I wasn't able to move it, but ALT + SPACE opened a menu where I could choose maximize, and that fixed things. – machineghost – 2017-08-04T04:41:20.000

2Upon pressing Alt-Space,M -- I'd suggest using/holding down arrow keys to get the window moving first. Once you see it, you should be able to use your mouse to move the window to where you want it. – krhainos – 2011-05-09T17:04:25.987

If you feel comfortable going through the registry, here's a way to reset Notepad's window position:

Close Notepad
On the Registry editor, go to: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad
Delete fSaveWindowPositions and/or iWindowPos*

Ellesa

Posted 2011-05-09T15:41:25.410

Reputation: 9 729

This worked great. Thank you. – Christopher Chipps – 2020-02-13T16:30:43.180

On Windows 8.1, press (Win)+← (left arrow), and the document will appear on the left half of your screen. Then drag the size a bit and it resets the window position.

Chaz

Posted 2011-05-09T15:41:25.410

Reputation: 61

I was having this same problem. I didn't try the Regedit method as my work computer is locked down. I tried the alt+space M method but didn't work. I tried the right click move on the Task Manager but there is no such move option on my Windows 7 OS in Task Manager.

So to solve the problem I

launched Notepad,
opened up Task Manager,
right clicked on Notepad,
left clicked Maximize

and it appeared on my screen again. I was then able to

click on the resize square in the upper right corner of the Notepad window
resize and
close Notepad.

I then relaunched Notepad and it appeared on my screen again.

Bruce Moody

Posted 2011-05-09T15:41:25.410

Reputation: 41

Life saver. Thanks! Getting tired of these Windows 10 bugs. – Benjamin – 2017-02-11T11:29:30.867

Awesome. The only answer that actually solves the problem instead of giving a workaround you have to use every time you reopen Notepad. – Eric12345 – 2018-04-26T09:46:50.130

I can't comment to Bruce post but I was having similar issues on Atom (I googled and this thread came up as an answer) You could also try: Win+Alt then click maximise

Gideon Sassoon

Posted 2011-05-09T15:41:25.410

Reputation: 1

yes a new user is not allowed to comment, with time you can increase your rep by answering questions etc and then you can comment. This is a very old question so you can always just remove your answer instead of having other vote down your answer. Thank you – SeanClt – 2016-03-26T20:19:06.913

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Open a notepad, hover over it in the taskbar. Right click on it then click move, at this point use your arrowkeys to move the window back on screen not the mouse. (If you dont know where the window is keep clicking on the taskbar where the icon is located and it will minimize and maximize, indicating its location off screen).

dutysmitts

Posted 2011-05-09T15:41:25.410

Reputation: 1