In a funny coincidence, just a few minutes ago I got an email indicating that an off-screen dialog bug I reported on Windows 8 almost three years ago has been fixed. (Actually I think it was fixed early last year in a Windows Technical Preview build - two years after I reported it!)

I had my ThinkPad and an external monitor positioned like this, with their arrangement set in the Display control panel to match:

  +----------------+
  |                |
  |                |
  |    External    |
  |                | +--------------+
  |                | |              |
  +----------------+ |   ThinkPad   |
                     |              |
                     +--------------+

When Windows 8 introduced the new file copy/move/delete dialogs, it also introduced a bug. With this monitor arrangement, the dialog would be displayed offscreen:

  +----------------+
  |                |
  |                | [Dialog]
  |    External    |
  |                | +--------------+
  |                | |              |
  +----------------+ |   ThinkPad   |
                     |              |
                     +--------------+

Oops.

Just like in the XKCD, the modal dialog locked up the File Explorer window that had opened the dialog. After running into this many times I figured out a workaround using keyboard shortcuts to move the dialog back onscreen.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-f...

Knowing about Alt+Spacebar has been invaluable.

Can you summarize what that does for those of us who don't know?

Pops up a menu in the corner of the active window with Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, Close. If the window is off screen, the menu should pop up within screen bounds anyway.

Also accessible by right clicking a titlebar, for anybody who's familiar with that one.