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    From SH@21:1/5 to Peeler on Mon Aug 23 10:05:16 2021
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 23/08/2021 09:52, Peeler wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:17:20 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

    Subject says it all.
    I can start Notepad and it appears in the
    task bar but it won't display on the screen.

    Most likely its completely off the screen. Just use the move options.

    If it's *completely* off the screen, he won't be able to use the move options, smart aleck.



    Does the OP use a 2nd monitor occasionally?

    I use a PC monitor on display port and a TV set that also happens to
    have HDMI.

    The TV is on the wall above the desk

    Reason being I have CCTV software so I can move the video mosaic to the
    TV set and thus keep teh PC monitor clear for real computer work.

    I only turn the TV set on when I need to view the video mosaic and I
    leave the TV set plugged in via HDMI.

    Winodws is pretty good at working out that the effective display changes
    when I turn said TV on or off but occasionally Winodws gets itself into
    a twist when I start up something and I can;t find it on the PC monitor
    even though I can see the task bar button for it.

    Solution is to turn TV ok, and use the mouse to drag the window across
    to the PC monitor and turn the TV set off.



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  • From Peeler@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 23 10:52:50 2021
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:17:20 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
    Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

    Subject says it all.
    I can start Notepad and it appears in the
    task bar but it won't display on the screen.

    Most likely its completely off the screen. Just use the move options.

    If it's *completely* off the screen, he won't be able to use the move
    options, smart aleck.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 23 09:43:47 2021
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 23/08/2021 in message <wmJUI.2080643$O2a8.1829979@usenetxs.com> Peeler wrote:

    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:17:20 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent >Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

    Subject says it all.
    I can start Notepad and it appears in the
    task bar but it won't display on the screen.

    Most likely its completely off the screen. Just use the move options.

    If it's completely off the screen, he won't be able to use the move
    options, smart aleck.

    Yes you can, Alt + Spacebar then arrows or mouse, works a treat.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
    George Washington was a British subject until well after his 40th birthday. (Margaret Thatcher, speech at the White House 17 December 1979)

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  • From Rod Speed@21:1/5 to Peeler on Mon Aug 23 20:27:23 2021
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid> wrote
    Rod Speed wrote

    Subject says it all.
    I can start Notepad and it appears in the
    task bar but it won't display on the screen.

    Most likely its completely off the screen. Just use the move options.

    If it's *completely* off the screen, he
    won't be able to use the move options,

    Wrong, as always. You use the keyboard keys to move it back onscreen,
    fuckwit.

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  • From Peeler@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Mon Aug 23 16:11:53 2021
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 23 Aug 2021 09:43:47 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:


    Most likely its completely off the screen. Just use the move options.

    If it's completely off the screen, he won't be able to use the move >>options, smart aleck.

    Yes you can, Alt + Spacebar then arrows or mouse, works a treat.

    Oh, I had tried Alt + arrows and the Alt actually blocked the feature. ;-)

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  • From David@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 23 19:36:36 2021
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:05:16 +0100, SH wrote:

    On 23/08/2021 09:52, Peeler wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:17:20 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
    Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

    Subject says it all.
    I can start Notepad and it appears in the task bar but it won't
    display on the screen.

    Most likely its completely off the screen. Just use the move options.

    If it's *completely* off the screen, he won't be able to use the move
    options, smart aleck.



    Does the OP use a 2nd monitor occasionally?

    I use a PC monitor on display port and a TV set that also happens to
    have HDMI.

    The TV is on the wall above the desk

    Reason being I have CCTV software so I can move the video mosaic to the
    TV set and thus keep teh PC monitor clear for real computer work.

    I only turn the TV set on when I need to view the video mosaic and I
    leave the TV set plugged in via HDMI.

    Winodws is pretty good at working out that the effective display changes
    when I turn said TV on or off but occasionally Winodws gets itself into
    a twist when I start up something and I can;t find it on the PC monitor
    even though I can see the task bar button for it.

    Solution is to turn TV ok, and use the mouse to drag the window across
    to the PC monitor and turn the TV set off.



    Interesting.
    I do run a second monitor at times but assumed that when I disconnected
    the second monitor and rebooted the system would know that there was only
    one monitor.

    I will check.


    Cheers


    Dave R



    --
    AMD FX-6300 in GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF running Windows 7 Pro x64

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to David on Mon Aug 23 21:02:06 2021
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 23/08/2021 in message <ioibm4F6g0lU4@mid.individual.net> David wrote:

    Interesting.
    I do run a second monitor at times but assumed that when I disconnected
    the second monitor and rebooted the system would know that there was only
    one monitor.

    I wrote a program that saves its screen position in an xml file when it
    shuts down. Windows does some very weird things with X/Y coordinates when
    you are using more than one screen! I can't remember the details but think negative coordinates and coordinates much greater than the screen size.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
    That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them? (President Hayes speaking to Alexander Graham Bell on the invention of the telephone)

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  • From David@21:1/5 to David on Sun Sep 19 12:19:10 2021
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:36:36 +0000, David wrote:

    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:05:16 +0100, SH wrote:

    On 23/08/2021 09:52, Peeler wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:17:20 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer
    Rodent Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered,
    again:

    Subject says it all.
    I can start Notepad and it appears in the task bar but it won't
    display on the screen.

    Most likely its completely off the screen. Just use the move options.

    If it's *completely* off the screen, he won't be able to use the move
    options, smart aleck.



    Does the OP use a 2nd monitor occasionally?

    I use a PC monitor on display port and a TV set that also happens to
    have HDMI.

    The TV is on the wall above the desk

    Reason being I have CCTV software so I can move the video mosaic to the
    TV set and thus keep teh PC monitor clear for real computer work.

    I only turn the TV set on when I need to view the video mosaic and I
    leave the TV set plugged in via HDMI.

    Winodws is pretty good at working out that the effective display
    changes when I turn said TV on or off but occasionally Winodws gets
    itself into a twist when I start up something and I can;t find it on
    the PC monitor even though I can see the task bar button for it.

    Solution is to turn TV ok, and use the mouse to drag the window across
    to the PC monitor and turn the TV set off.



    Interesting.
    I do run a second monitor at times but assumed that when I disconnected
    the second monitor and rebooted the system would know that there was
    only one monitor.

    I will check.

    Now back up on the laptop with the new battery.
    Connected to the desktop monitor and it is showing Notepad.

    I am still confused as to why it doesn't revert everything to the main
    display when the laptop is running on its own.

    At the moment I am just using the big monitor, with the lid of the laptop closed.

    Cheers


    Dave R




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    Dell Latitude 7280 with Full HD and Thunderbolt (woo hoo)

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to David on Sun Sep 19 16:32:49 2021
    XPost: uk.d-i-y

    On 19 Sep 2021 at 13:19:10 BST, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:36:36 +0000, David wrote:

    On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:05:16 +0100, SH wrote:

    Winodws is pretty good at working out that the effective display
    changes when I turn said TV on or off but occasionally Winodws gets
    itself into a twist when I start up something and I can;t find it on
    the PC monitor even though I can see the task bar button for it.

    Solution is to turn TV ok, and use the mouse to drag the window across
    to the PC monitor and turn the TV set off.



    Interesting.
    I do run a second monitor at times but assumed that when I disconnected
    the second monitor and rebooted the system would know that there was
    only one monitor.

    I will check.

    Now back up on the laptop with the new battery.
    Connected to the desktop monitor and it is showing Notepad.

    I am still confused as to why it doesn't revert everything to the main display when the laptop is running on its own.

    It is *supposed* to. If it doesn't there isn't a lot you can do about it
    aside from re-connecting the second/larger screen and dragging it to
    your primary/closer to the top-left. You can sometimes go Registry
    diving and play 'spot the screen coordinates', but that's not at all
    reliable these days. I remember when all this were .ini files....

    Cheers - J
    --
    It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's a scavenger hunt.

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