When i minimize a window it disappears windows 7

Knowing the right keyboard shortcuts will save you time and the headache of searching for off-screen documents, web pages, and programs. There is a keyboard shortcut for almost every element of Windows and this is no exception. If you lose a window, you can trigger the move cursor to bring it back. It takes a few seconds but achieves the same goal.

If you hold Alt and tap on the tab button, all of your open materials will appear in a list. You can use the arrow keys to recover the window that way too. This will only work if you have taskbar buttons set to show on the main taskbar as well as where the window is open. There are many keyboard shortcuts on Windows, hopefully this one solver your problem. As always, thanks for sharing your insight in the comments.

If all else fails, right-click on your taskbar and select "Cascade windows". User Comments: Add your comment to this article. You need to be a member to leave a comment. Join thousands of tech enthusiasts and participate. TechSpot Account Sign up for free , it takes 30 seconds. Already have an account? Login now. This was the culprit but it came from a user having the shortcuts and just not using them. Of course they would show up on the desktop for any user of the machine, but in my case, there was only 1 user of the laptop, so it works fine for her.

Not a fix, but an acceptable solution, in my case. I've seen similar, and although the reason why eludes me, the fix was to right click desktop, view, tick "show desktop icons". As simple as it could get. Thank you mate, following your answer, the problem was just a couple of clicks away. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Laplink Software, Inc. Neil Laplink.

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Learn More ». If local shortcuts are disappearing that is a new one for me. When the "undocumented feature" exhibits itself while running but not when running , on the same machine, with all other factors being equal AFAIK , I think it's reasonable to conclude that something "got broke" in Since the system requirements vary between product, I am not sure that an apples-to-apples comparison is being made when you are comparing it to your AutoCAD Do you happen to have at your disposal the differences between system requirements for and ?

And let's just say that the machine conforms to the requirements which I believe it does. In that case, wouldn't one expect to probably see issues if issues are going to be seen with the older version and not the newer one?

I updated my video driver, and the problem is still there. Tuner logs attached, in case they might have clues. This particular issue still does not occur in on this machine or on any others in my purview.

If the first thing I do is type something into the command line "palette" I have this docked at the bottom this will sometimes "fix" the F2 issue. If I place the cursor into the command line without typing anything, and then hit F2, the problem is still there. I think it depends on the type of "command" being executed. Of course, if I undock the command line "palette", the whole issue goes away.

But that's not an actual "fix". The issue seems to be related to the command line palette "competing" with the text window, at least until a certain amount of "attention" is given to it. If you think it would be helpful to test any other scenarios or gather any other info, please just ask. Have you seen this article and tried any of the steps in it? I appreciate the steps you have taken to help isolate this issue.

Since I can't duplicate this on my side it is hard to test anything. I will continue to research this and see if the process you have gone through can help the QA team. I am told that this behavior is As Designed but I am not convinced. I had seen that article, but it doesn't provide a workable solution, and seems to deny that it is an issue bug at all. Not "probably", but definitely! That's part of the definition of the issue! Another obvious piece of the definition is that it behaves differently than it used to, requiring me to use an illogical alternate procedure to work around it.

But do I want to have to do that? I am working on a notebook without a 2nd monitor, so moving is not an option. But if it was, would I want to have to do that? I can certainly re-size the application window and move it or just minimize it to the taskbar , which does reveal the misbehaving text window, sitting there looking all innocent maybe it is actually innocent, and it's the program window that is the real culprit!