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Utilities
From Igad
- There is a silly problem that sometimes occurs that causes a large amount of pain. It may have happened to you and you never knew. What you *did* know was that an application has seemed to have locked up while you were waiting for a dialog box. Unfortunately, try as you might, you cannot fix the problem. You even re-install the application (such as open office), and it *still* does not work. This could be, for example, when trying to open the format dialog box in open office writer.
- Now, what may have happened is that you had multiple displays and moved this dialog box to a different screen, but now you do not have that screen attached, so you cannot see the dialog box, and windows is too stupid to notice that it is displaying a dialog box off screen. If this dialog box is what is known as "modal" it means the application will not proceed until you close this dialog box. Problem is that you can't because you can't see it. Not only that, the application may remember where you last placed the dialog box, meaning that restarting the application will not help; and sometimes the settings are remembers even after a reinstall, meaning that you are completely buggered.
- Who knows how many people have suffered from this, only to resort, eventually, to reinstalling windows or buying a new computer?
- However, do not fear, I created a handy little app to help you out of these difficult situations. It is called moveallwindows.exe and was written with the marvelous AutoIt program. What this program does is move all windows to the top left of your main screen, including modal dialog boxes. This is useful in any situation when you find that a window has moved itself off screen and so you cannot click on it to drag it back. Enjoy.
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