Windows 10: Can't see windows on main monitor and can't get them back - THIS IS INSANE!

Discus and support Can't see windows on main monitor and can't get them back - THIS IS INSANE! in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; This is so mind-numbingly f'd up I'm so livid right now. I have a laptop with an external monitor attached. Screen is extended. Apps open in each... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/Skwigle, Feb 17, 2021.

  1. Can't see windows on main monitor and can't get them back - THIS IS INSANE!


    This is so mind-numbingly f'd up I'm so livid right now.

    I have a laptop with an external monitor attached. Screen is extended. Apps open in each monitor. Power goes out and I lose access to all the apps that were open on the ext monitor.

    Tried "cascade windows", didn't work.

    Tried "show windows stacked", didn't work.

    The only other solution offered on every site that comes up is to "right-click on app icon in taskbar and use arrow keys to move the app window to main monitor" but I can't do that either because my taskbar settings are to show app icon only on the monitor it's open in.

    Every time I try to access taskbar settings, I can't because it opens on the external monitor (which isn't even attached anymore) for some reason. Everything opens on the ext monitor.

    There seems to be NO WAY at all to get access to these apps now. Tried to use display settings but every single thing I try opens a window on, you guessed it, the inaccessible ext monitor.

    THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN ON A COMPUTER. Microsoft you suck so bad.

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    /u/Skwigle, Feb 17, 2021
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  4. BetoLP Win User

    Can't see windows on main monitor and can't get them back - THIS IS INSANE!

    Windows doesn`t start. Authomatic repair doesn`t work.

    Thanks again!!

    I`m sorry I had not noticed that the text on the picture was in spanish. It says that windows has replaced some damaged clusters in "name" file and "directory". Then, at the end "an unspecified error occurred (75736e6a726e6c2e 4f6)".

    I`ll do it and I`ll be updating this thread when I have the report.

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    I ran SeaTools. These are the results:

    Can't see windows on main monitor and can't get them back - THIS IS INSANE! [​IMG]


    Does it mean my HDD is useless?
     
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