Somewhere on your screen, you’ll get theĪlternately, right-click on the application in the task bar (in Windows 7 & 8 you may have to hold down the Shift key as you click):Ĭlick on the Move menu item. If any portion of the application window is visible at all, you can simply click on it and then type ALT+spacebar (hold down ALT while typing the spacebar once and then release both). This will come in handy in just a moment. System Menu? Yes, the application icon that appears on the far left is something you can click on:Īs you can see, there are the Minimize, Maximize, and Close items, as well as a couple of others: Restore (inactive since the window is in the “restored” state – neither minimize nor maximized), as well as Move and Size. In addition to the title, the title bar also includes the System Menu on the far left, as well as the familiar Minimize, Maximize, and Close icons on the right. Here’s what I’m referring to when I talk about the title bar: It might be time to break out the keyboard interface.įor our example, I’ll fire up Notepad.
If you’re used to using the controls on a window’s title bar to move, manipulate, or otherwise deal with the application, you’re kind of out of luck.
If you are running an older Windows 10 release, please refer to the following article, which covers the classic Control Panel options: Get the old language indicator and language bar in Windows 10.Every once in a while for a variety of reasons, it’s possible for a window to get positioned such that its title bar – the bar across the top of the window with the program name as well as the Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons – is off the screen, becoming both impossible to see and impossible to click on using the mouse.Īlmost as common are windows that are completely off screen – perhaps due to unplugging a second monitor before moving all windows back to the remaining screen. The instructions above are applicable to Windows 10 Build 17074 and above.
This will make the language bar floating. In the menu, select Show the language bar.Click on the language icon in the taskbar.Note: This assumes that you have enabled the Language bar as described above. By default, it appears docked in the taskbar bar. You just enabled the language bar in WIndows 10. On the next page, enable the option Use the desktop language bar when it's available.On the right, click on the link Advanced keyboard settings.To enable the language bar in Windows 10, do the following. If you are a desktop user, you might want to enable the more compact classic language bar instead of the default oversized language indicator. Now you have to use Settings to configure language settings in Windows 10.īy default, Windows 10 comes with a touch-friendly language indicator in the notification area on the taskbar. Unlike previous releases, it does not include the Language settings UI in the Control Panel.
If you upgraded to Windows 10 Build 17074 or above, its new language options can look strange to you.