I don't see it anymore. What do I do is there a setting or fix that I can do to make it appear.
I have a very small window, Free Screen Recorder, and it's somewhere off in the boonies. Using the ALT+Space method doesn't work. I tried it and I got the move cursor but moving the mouse doesn't drag the window. It's completely off the screen, so clicking once I have the move cursor only results in me clicking on either the desktop or the taskbar and doesn't grab the window I want to move.
I finally found something that did work before I finished writing this. Alt+Space brought up the context menu and much to my delight there was a maximize button. I maximized the window, then moved and resized it with the mouse after that.
Cascade windows was much easier than going to a search engine to try to find some obscure method in a forum and performing some voodoo ritual to try to get the window back. Please bring back Cascade Windows the the other very useful options to the task bar that were removed for some unknown reason. Let me guess... "to make it easier". If I wanted easy, I would have bought a Mac.
Actually found a way.
- hover over the app's icon on the task-bar. Thumbnails of all its windows will open.
- Hover over the one that is (partially) off-screen, and right click. The windows "position" menu will open.
- Select Move and use the arrow keys to get the window back on screen.
Obviously you would still need a small piece of the window already on screen to see what the arrow keys do.
cascade windows 11
Windows 11 Cascade Windows: possible with e.g. AutoHotkey, not with VBScript or PowerShell - Stack Overflow
How do I cascade windows in Windows 11?
How do I cascade windows in Windows 11?
What is cascade in Windows?
Cascade is a feature in window management that arranges open windows in a cascade-like fashion, making it easy to view and access multiple windows on your screen simultaneously. Instead of overlapping, they're staggered, allowing you to see the title bars of each window. This feature is handy when you want a quick overview of your open applications.
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I didn't use "Cascade" often, but it came in handy when dealing with many web browser windows and with Explorer folders .... It's missed. Why they took it out is beyond me.
"How can we piss the most people off by making things `better' for the average user?
I know! Let's take away something that the most learned and intuitive users utilize but the people who don't do anything but browse the web don't!
....Cascade!
Oh, and while we're at it, we'll set up Windows to automatically encrypt the user's hard drive after an update, and if they don't know enough to back up the key themselves - which MOST users won't because... why would they? - they'll lose ALLLLLLLLL their saved files and information! Oh, we can SAY that it'll automatically back up the key to their Microsoft account... if they can access it after something causes their system to NEED the key for the encrypted drive... but we all know that it has a high failure rate of saving the key, and everything will be lost anyway! Bwahahahahahaahaha!!!!!"
....my take of the brainstorming session that led to Cascade missing, and the average person's data being lost because their encryption key - which they never asked for - was lost due to not being backed up to their Microsoft account. Which nobody actually USES except to log into the computer because it made them create the account when they were setting up Windows 10, from which they upgraded, and there was NOTHING telling them their hard drive was automatically encrypted for them "for their safety and security" that loses them everything, and there's "no way" that Microsoft can recover the data without that lost key...
(Can you tell it's a bit of a sore spot? I know THREE people who have lost all their data, and another who LUCKILY had just made a backup of all their data two days before their system decided the hard drive was corrupted... )
So ... To answer the question: Cascade was taken away.
Another point where windows 11 sucks, I have an application stuck off screen, I have no 'Move' option and SNAP only works if you can get at the window in the first place.
Anyone know if there is a third party tool to do cascade windows?
You can use AutoHotKey to bind that functionality to any key. Example:
^+0::DllCall("CascadeWindows", "uInt",0, "Int",4, "Int",0, "Int",0, "Int",0)
Would bind it to Ctrl + Shift + 0
Source and CascadeWindows API documentation
Another approach:
Alt+Tab to put the focus on the (currently offscreen) window that you want to move. Alt+SpaceBar then M (to Move the current window). Use the arrow keys to move the window back into view. Press ENTER when done.