Opera terminally minimized

[stefh62]

stefh62 last edited by

Opera won't maximize. I've had Opera from several months with no issues but today I can't bring it up on screen all I see is a very small version of it at the bottom of my screen - likes it's terminally minimized???

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @stefh62 last edited by

@stefh62 Like it's off your screen, actually. People who had two monitors and disconnected one were first to report this - the window still thought it was on the disconnected monitor - but apparently that isn't the only case. When the (invisible) window has focus (according to the taskbar icon), try Alt-Spacebar to display the window's system menu and move it onto the screen.

[anupama]

anupama Banned last edited by

Hi,

I forgot about this trick.

Bring Misplaced Off-Screen Windows Back to Your Desktop (Keyboard Trick)
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/

If you’ve ever hooked up your laptop to a secondary monitor and then disconnected without
remembering to move the windows back to the primary desktop, you’ve probably encounted
this problem:

The application is running. You can see it in the taskbar, but you can’t see it on the screen,
because it still thinks it’s running on the secondary monitor. You try and use right-click, Move,
but that doesn’t do anything, and the window doesn’t move anywhere. You end up rebooting
and cursing Microsoft.

There’s a simple trick to get around this. 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.

Note: For keyboard savvy people, you can just alt-tab to the window, use Alt+Space, then M,
then Arrow key, and then move your mouse.

This should work on any version of Windows. It’s really amazing how many people are not aware
of this little trick.

Update: Note that you can also right-click on the taskbar and choose to Cascade your open
windows, which will often help bring the windows back onto the screen.

Hope this helps.

[AurimasJ]

AurimasJ @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse Ok so since it is minimized you can imagine that Alt-Space will not work because you do not have focus on it. Was using it just fine yesterday and today having exactly the same issue as above. Please give a better solution to the problem

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @AurimasJ last edited by

@aurimasj Click on the taskbar icon to focus it.

[Xana]

Xana last edited by

I have the same issue since two days. The advice to use ALT+Space isn't working. Do you have another solution?

[anupama]

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