Alt-Spacebar brings up Windows Menu

July 13, 2010 by Pete Tanguay
Filed under Rock-Pond Technology Blog

Unless you’ve been in a situation where you have a window that is partially on your screen and you need to move it, you won’t fully appreciate this tip. Or if you are set up to use two monitors with your laptop and you are out of the office and only have one monitor, only to find that Windows “remembers” that when you launch a program that it is to appear on your second monitor. If you been in either of these situations, you’ll agree with me that this is the tip of the year.

SITUATION: You are accessing a system remotely and a program window is half off (or completely off) of the screen and you want to move it so you can use it. You can’t see (or click on) the top part of the window to move it.

TIP: Hold the alt-key down and press spacebar. This will bring up the windows menu and allow you to select a command by pressing the appropriate key. Press the “M” key to select move and use your arrow keys to move the window until it magically appears on your screen.

This is just one of the many keyboard shortcuts you can use with Windows. Others can be found on the Microsoft Website.