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Have ever hooked up your laptop to a secondary monitor and then disconnected without remembering to move the windows back to the primary desktop?

You can see the application still running in the taskbar, but it's not on the screen, because it still thinks it’s running on the secondary monitor.

To get around this, first make sure you’ve alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it once to bring it into focus. Then right-click on the taskbar and choose Move. At this point, you should notice that your cursor changes to the “Move” cursor, but you still can’t move anything.

Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse, and the window will appear back onto the screen.