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I HATE WINDOWS

Why does Windows have to be such a buggy freaking piece of crap??!?

I’m sitting here editing some text files, and all of a sudden, when I open a file in my text editor, the window is off-screen somewhere totally inaccessible.  It has a taskbar button, and it’s pushed in indicating that the window has focus, but there is no window.  If I right-click on the taskbar button and choose Maximize, the window appears, maximized; but if I then Restore it, it’s gone again.

If I right-click the taskbar button and choose Size or Move, my mouse cursor jumps to the screen’s upper-lefthand corner and turns to the arrow-cursor as if it’s on the edge of the window, ready for me to drag; but when I drag, nothing happens.

Now every single instance of my text editor that I start is invisible.  And this has happened to me many times before, so I know from experience that this problem won’t go away until I reboot, which means I’ll have to close all my open windows -- about 20, which is typical for the way I work.

ARGH, this is so annoying.  Someone please tell me you know a way to fix this!

Posted by Anthony on Jun 26, 2006 | 7 replies
Filed under: Microsoft, Stupidity

Comments:

01. Jun 27, 2006 at 12:03am by stevecraft:

focus and restore the window that you can’t see, hit alt+spacebar and then M (or that silly right-click-on-taskbar-then-click-move thing) and then hit one of your arrow keys.  After you hit one, you should be able to use your mouse to drag that garbage back on your screen.  God I hate windows.

02. Jun 27, 2006 at 12:15am by Anthony:

Muaaaahahaha, yes!  Thank you!!

I tried Alt-Space-M and -S, to move/resize it via the arrow keys; I also tried moving it with the mouse.  But I would never have guessed to use the arrow keys and then the mouse in combination... why in the heck does that matter??

03. Jun 27, 2006 at 12:24am by stevecraft:

That’s a grand question.  I guess the answer probably has something to do with the geniuses at microsoft.  That same problem used to happen to me all the time and I would sit here and try to move the stupid windows back onto my screen using only the arrow keys, because the mouse did nothing but change the cursor into that retarded four-way arrow.  This process very rarely worked, because I had no clue which side of the screen the window in question was nearest to or how far away it was.  So then one time I got mad and flipped out on my mouse and the window popped up.

04. Jun 27, 2006 at 05:43am by Kev:

Quoting Anthony:

Someone please tell me you know a way to fix this!

Umm... use Linux... {/runs away} :)

05. Jun 27, 2006 at 02:35pm by Mom:

Ask Warren Buffett, since he seems to be in a generous mood right now, for a donation to your foundation to eradicate Microsoft bugs.

06. Jun 29, 2006 at 02:57am by andy:

stevecraft beat me to it, but yeah the arrows-then-mouse thing is odd... i have had to use that a bajillion times to bring instant messages out from under full screen game windows taking up a vwm (pager) space =D

07. Jan 24, 2007 at 10:28pm by Someone:

Only one known way to solve your problem, buy a mac.

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