Dialog box off the screen

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

So, open notepad, type something, move the window down out of the way of something else you're doing so it's partially off the screen, close notepad, er.... how do I click save?

Edwin · Mar 3, 2023

Lamberto Vitali said:
... how do I click save?

Mine pops upwards.

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

Mine does that on a second monitor, but not the main one with the taskbar on it. Only thing I can think of is I use startallback which modifies the taskbar.

Edwin · Mar 3, 2023

Lamberto Vitali said:
Only thing I can think of is I use startallback which modifies the taskbar.

I doubt it..., works the same for me whether I have SAB enabled or disabled.

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

Do you have multiple monitors?

Edwin · Mar 3, 2023

Lamberto Vitali said:
Do you have multiple monitors?

No.

KWEB · Mar 3, 2023

Check Display Settings > Scale ??

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

For the offending monitor, 100%(recommended), 1920x1080(recommended), landscape.

Edwin · Mar 3, 2023

Lamberto Vitali said:
Do you have multiple monitors?

I do now...,
recommended resolution...
pops them both up...

however, I use the native Notepad where prompt dialogs usually appear center screen...

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

Then I don't know why my computer is being different. I play games, perhaps Radeon software is messing about? I've used it to for example change the brightness when in a game and fit the screen onto a monitor which doesn't do that right, but that shouldn't interfere with dialog box positions surely?

Not sure what you mean by "native notepad". I just use what came with Windows 11, which looks like your first screenshot, there are tabs in notepad now.

Edwin · Mar 3, 2023

Lamberto Vitali said:
Not sure what you mean by "native notepad".

"C:\Windows\notepad.exe"

I don't care much for UWP apps, I just installed it to test your situation.

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

I don't know what UWP means. I use the notepad which appears in the start menu. I assumed it had been upgraded recently as it's added tabs, which is nice. Are you telling me there are two versions on my computer? Why would you want the old one? And if it means having the dialog centre screen, even if the program isn't, that's a downside not an upside.

Actually, I just tried running c:\windows\notepad.exe, and I still got the new tabbed one.

Edwin · Mar 3, 2023

Lamberto Vitali said:
I don't know what UWP means.

Universal Windows Platform app, or, a Store app.

Lamberto Vitali said:
Are you telling me there are two versions on my computer?

Pretty much, at least on mine there is...

Lamberto Vitali said:
Why would you want the old one?

Cuz I don't care for Store apps.

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

It doesn't look like a store app, and I've never gone to the store for notepad. The only app I did get from there looked like it belonged on a mobile phone. In fact as far as I know I disabled store apps as a byproduct of doing something else.

How do you get those screenshots? I've never seen a window like that. It's nothing like what I see from either "control panel - programs and features" or "settings - apps".

Edwin · Mar 3, 2023

Lamberto Vitali said:
It doesn't look like a store app, and I've never gone to the store for notepad. The only app I did get from there looked like it belonged on a mobile phone. In fact as far as I know I disabled store apps as a byproduct of doing something else.

How do you get those screenshots? I've never seen a window like that. It's nothing like what I see from either "control panel - programs and features" or "settings - apps".

The new UWP Notepad replaced the native one automatically, a while back.
To enable the native one, you have to uninstall the new one, then enable the old one through apps/Optional Features.

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

I think I'll do that, I've gone off the tabs. Notepad is too simple a program to have tabs, I prefer to have them seperate, especially having 5 monitors. I sometimes place one file over there and one over there. There seems to be no way to turn the tabs off! Typical MS dictating personal preferences.

But where is it to uninstall? It's not listed under notepad or Microsoft notepad in control panel / programs and features.

However I DO have the classic listed in optional features, I just can't run it!

kelper · Mar 3, 2023

Click once in that Notepad window to make sure it has focus.
Press ALT+SPACEBAR and then M. use the cursor keys to move the window as required.

Edwin · Mar 3, 2023

Lamberto Vitali said:
But where is it to uninstall? It's not listed under notepad or Microsoft notepad in control panel / programs and features.

In the Start Menu..., right click it...

Lamberto Vitali said:
However I DO have the classic listed in optional features, I just can't run it!

Probably have to uninstall the aforementioned first.

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

Ahhh! Didn't think of that method. Although you can't do it from MRU list. I had to search for it. Not sure where it actually lies in the start menu as it wasn't under N!

Ha! Now it asked me if I wanted the new version. Thankfully closing that banner makes it not ask again. Hopefully. I'll probably get bugged once a week, or it'll get classed as a security update and my PC will reboot while I'm using it as usually happens, I lost loads of unsaved work once.

Lamberto Vitali · Mar 3, 2023

kelper said:
Click once in that Notepad window to make sure it has focus.
Press ALT+SPACEBAR and then M. use the cursor keys to move the window as required.

I've had to do that a lot when Windows gets stupid and puts stuff off my screen, just because my multi monitor config (or just the resolution) is different to when I last ran the program.

Not needed here though, I can just drag it up. It was annoying though.

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