A floating window is usually always opened within the screen area even on being last time opened on a different screen than the currently available screen. But if the screen area is still defined in the Windows display settings for usage of two or more screens although there is only one screen plugged and powered on at the moment, the screen area is defined with a not visible area.
UltraEdit has on ribbon tab
Layout in last group
Data the command
Gather windows. The
contemporary menu
Layout has at bottom the menu item
Gather windows. In toolbar/menu mode with traditional menus must be opened in menu
View the submenu
Views/lists containing at the bottom the menu item
Recover floating windows. Execute this command while the
Favorite Files window is currently not opened (as otherwise the command cannot be executed with a pointing device button click). Then open
Favorite Files and see if it is opened now inside the visible screen area. Continue with next suggestion if it is still outside the visible screen area.
There is the Microsoft support page
Keyboard shortcuts in Windows. In section
Copy, paste, and other general keyboard shortcuts is listed
Alt + Spacebar … Open the shortcut menu for the active window. The shortcut menu is the menu which appears on clicking with primary (usually left) pointing device (mouse) button on the icon of an application on left side of the title bar of the main application window. The shortcut menu contains several general menu items like
Restore,
Move,
Size,
Minimize,
Maximize. The floating
Favorite Files window has also such a shortcut menu.
In this use case is
Move what is needed to get the already opened floating
Favorite Files window back into the visible screen area. Press with not visible but opened
Favorite Files window
Alt+Space and next the key
M. (Key
Alt does not need to be pressed anymore on already opened not visible menu.) Now use the
Left/Right Arrow keys on assuming the second screen was positioned right/left and not up/below to current available screen. Hold first the
Left Arrow key for about 10 seconds and look if the rectangle for the window comes suddenly from the right into the visible screen area. Otherwise hold the
Right Arrow key for about 10 seconds and look if the rectangle for the window comes suddenly from the left into the visible screen area. Special hint: Using shortcut menu command
Move and holding
Ctrl while using the
Arrow keys makes it possible to position a window in steps of just one pixel which is not so easy using the pointing device. Press either
RETURN or
ENTER to position the hopefully again visible
Favorite Files window.
If the usage of the shortcut menu was also not successful to get the
Favorite Files window back, press
ESC to close the window and
Alt+F4 to exit UltraEdit. Start now
Windows Notepad, press
Ctrl+O, copy and paste the file name
%APPDATA%\IDMComp\UltraEdit\volatile\ue.vod with
Ctrl+C and
Ctrl+V from browser window into the
File name edit field of the
Open window of
Windows Notepad and click on button
Open. Press
Ctrl+F and search for the section:
[reg:Software\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\FavoriteDialog] Delete the entire section with its thirteen lines below, save the modified file
ue.vod and close
Windows Notepad. Start UltraEdit and open the
Favorite Files window which is displayed centered inside the main application window of UltraEdit. It can be resized and moved now again.