Frustrating Visio feature or is it a bug? | The Coffeehouse

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

Ok so I'm using Visio 2007 on my work laptop (still running XP but soon to change to Win 7 Goodness) It's a Lenovo T400. I'm not in love with it but it does the job.

I run my laptop off a nice and big 28" second screen at work where my Visio diagrams look just nice.

So when I'm at home, how come every application realises that the second big 28" screen isn't plugged in ... except Visio! It's driving me nutts! How can I get the stupid application to stop maximising to a screen that doesn't exist! Even display properties gets the message that there is no second screen.

Does anyone know how to get around this other than finding another monitor to plug the laptop into ... which would be my HDTV.

AndyC

Right click the taskbar button (or thumbnail in 7)

Select Move (you may need to Restore first, if it thinks it's maximised)

Press one of the arrow keys

Move the mouse and the window will jump to the cursor.

But agreed, this sort of behaviour is very annoying.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

Very annoying.

iTunes is worse. It disables the right click taskbar menu so you cannot restore/move it. Sad

LeoDavidson

In Win 7 there's a much nicer way to move windows on screen: Activate them and push Win-Left or Win-Right (maybe a few times).

Way less hassle than the old Move menu.

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In reply to LeoDavidson

#Aug 31st @ 1:56 PM

I just wish that Windows wouldn't let windows create themselves behind the taskbar (with the taskbar on top like it's supposed to be Tongue Out ). Windows 7 makes this even worse by making the taskbar larger and getting rid of the right-click menu so you can move a window out from behind it (yes, there are other ways to move windows out from behind the taskbar, but there are cases where most of them fail).

LeoDavidson

In reply to CannotResolveSymbol

#Aug 31st @ 4:54 PM

The old right-click menu is still there, just hidden a bit. If you hold shift when you right-click then you'll see the old menu.

If only one window is open then you can shift-right-click the taskbar button itself. If multiple windows are open you instead have to shift-right-click the appropriate window's thumbnail.

It'd be good if more apps that remembered window positions between sessions also thought to check the desktop/workspace area when restoring them. It's very easy to do (but also easy to forget to do).