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Subject: [WriteLog] Out of view windows
From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:07:21 -0800
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Forgot to mention this earlier.  Last weekend when in the All Asia SSB 
contest I suddenly discovered that the Multipliers window and the Packet 
window had somehow gotten themselves badly out of position.  The Multipliers 
window was mostly off the screen of my second monitor - only the bottom edge 
and a bit of the widow white space was showing.  The Packet window was 
completely off the screen and unviewable.

When trying to figure out how to get them back onto the desktop of the 
second monitor I right clicked on the Multipliers icon in the Windows Task 
Bar and then clicked on Move.  The cursor changed to 4 headed arrow, but 
when I clicked on the bottom edge of the Multiplier window it went back to a 
normal cursor and nothing changed.  Somehow I discovered that if I right 
clicked on the Task Bar icon then clicked on Move to get the 4 headed arrow 
and moved the new cursor to the second monitor and then hit Esc, the out of 
position window suddenly moved!  It came back onto the desktop somewhat, but 
not completely.  A couple more attempts at using the Move selection to get 
the 4 headed arrow and then repositioning it down low on the left side of 
the second monitor before hitting Esc resulted in the Multiplier window 
returning to a position where I could again click and drag on the top bar to 
move it.

Since that worked I tried it again with the Packet window which was 
completely off the screen.  After getting the 4 headed arrow cursor for the 
Packet window I again placed it in the lower left quadrant of the screen and 
hit Esc.  Like magic the Packet window suddenly reappeared on the desk top 
where I could now move it to where I wanted it to be.  I have no idea why 
this works, it just does.  Thought I'd mention it in case someone else has a 
similar problem someday.

73,
Gary AL9A

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