Outlook won't restore to a smaller window! Driving me nuts....

UberTiger · 20 Mar 2011 at 19:57

Got Outlook 2010 installed on Win 7.

A couple of weeks ago I encountered an issue where I can't for the life of me get the window to a point where I can see the smaller restored window on the screen to move around.

I use a dual screen setup so often move it and snap maximise to the other screen.

Now if I have it maximised on one screen and click drag the top bar to move it, it disappears.

If I click on the outlook icon pinned to the task bar nothing happens.
If I hover over it so the mini window above the icon pops up and click on that nothing happens.
If I do the same and instead right click 'move' the cursor changes but I still can't see the window to get it on screen.
The only way to get it up again is do the same as the previous sentence and hit maximise.

When maximised if I hit the normal restore button I also lose it completely.

Any ideas?
Thanks

vsmora · 20 Mar 2011 at 20:08

After you select Move press any arrow key before moving the mouse. Now move the mouse and the window should follow it.

UberTiger · 21 Mar 2011 at 14:18

Nah, doesn't work

Works with other windows, but still can't see the outlook one.

bledd · 21 Mar 2011 at 14:45

Maximse it, then 'drag' the top toolbar to the left of your screen and touch the screen, it should 'fill' the left side then

From here, you can shape it how you want

Like this..

UberTiger · 21 Mar 2011 at 15:00

Ahh nice one! That was really weird, whenever I maximised it then and dragged the top toolbar the whole thing dissapears from the screen, by bringing the cursor to the side of one monitor for aero snap and releasing it, it did reappear aligned in half the screen.

If I then selected the top tool bar again to drag it still dissapeared, but if I instead resized it vertically it gave me a restored window that I could move around and all seems back to normal.

How very strange, thanks a lot, that was bugging the crap out of me