Way to move a window from a disabled screen?

[Anjow]

Hard to explain the real problem in the title of the thread.

I usually run 2 monitors, both at 1600x1200, both from the same card. Recently I discovered that one of them has some damaged power thingamyjig and was leaking electricity back to the computer and making the whole case electrified and shocking to the touch. So I unplugged it from everything.

Now I have booted up (without the recent problems of hanging on boot while detecting IDE drives or getting a blue screen before loading windows - probably down to the monitor I think) and I'm left with half my programs which USUALLY open up on the second screen (on the right) opening up on a screen that doesn't exist and where I can't use them.

Does anyone know how I can get them to move from that nonexistent screen onto the main desktop? The main one is trillian that I'm worried about; the contact list is on this nonexistent screen and I can't get it back...

[mewisemagic2]

can you go to display properties and select 1 display also :shrug: there is a setting about spreading across monitors you can adjust i think

[Anjow]

It is not that two are enabled but I can only see the contents of one - there is only one screen enabled, I can't move things off the current desktop but some things are set to launch at screen coordinates that don't exist and for some reason they don't detect that.

[DvBoard]

just turn off the other display under your video card properties and it shoudl default back to as though you hav only one display and move everything.

[Anjow]

Well that's my problem - I have done that but it doesn't work. Some things still start up on the nonexistant screen...

[anhvo12345]

lol i had that problem before, use taskbar on the bottom and right click on your program and click move and your the arrow key to move your program back to the real window screen thingy.

[Anjow]

Hmm, I've had a go at doing that but it seems as though my mouse pointer just moves to the edge of the main desktop and not to the program...

[redduc900]

You can move the Active Window by hitting Alt+Spacebar and then M, then use the arrow keys to do the moving... hit ENTER to finish.

[JigPu]

Also, once you hit one of the arrow keys to move the window (as outlined above), you can take over with the mouse so it dosen't take nearly as long. It dosen't work though until you hit an arrow key at least once.

JigPu