Reset Windows Pin Windows 10

[Brayan Jacobsen]

Applicationsthat store and restore their absolute window-position, might end up outside the visible screen if the monitor's screen-space changes. This happens for instance when de/attaching an external monitor.

Another method(which works from an old version like Windows 98, up to a current version like Windows 10), is one could activate the window then do alt-space to bring up the window's menu, then 'M'(which stands for 'move') , and use the arrow keys to move the window more within view

When the window has focus, try ALT+SPACE to open the context menu. There you should see the options which usually include move/minimize/maximize. It should pop up in the visible space even though the window title bar cannot be seen ;)

I've recently answered a question regarding window configurations and ultimately resorted to using the Registry. Although I don't know of any ability like that on XP, standard Move and Dimensioning (right click on the program on the taskbar) seem to not work as expected.

This isn't a one-size fits-all solution, because programs don't follow any naming convention regarding window placement. I'm basing my answer on this but like I said and researched, different programs use different keys to store the same information.

You can conceivably alter the values of your program and afterwards create a backup of the registry keys you changed. That way you would have an automatic way to change the position of your program's window, although you would have to run it whenever you wanted to restore. Or you could see my linked answer and lock those values.

I find the most effective way if the task is showing on the Task bar you Shift+Right click the task and if the "Move" option is greyed out, choose Restore, then Shift+Right Click again and select "Move", then simply tap one of the Arrow keys. This will lock the window to the mouse until you click again. So you can now move the mouse around and wherever the window was it will come to the mouse pointer.

Example : Switching from office to home workplace on VPN with RSA, every time I change my monitor alignment , the RSA software can not be seen (does have maximize option). So i need to delete this to see this RSA in my pc.

In task bar right click and click on Lock Task bar.It is just a temp setting. you can revert it back after it is done.It will move all windows outside the screen to inside.Then you can move the windows whichever way you want.

Double click the "show desktop" button either in the taskbar next to the start button (Windows until XP) or on the right side of the taskbar (since Windows 7) to "pull" all windows to the current desktop.

I've looked for this answer online and have come across the "systemreset -factoryreset" command which works, but it comes up with the prompt asking if I want to keep my files or remove everything, I want to remove everything, but without the prompt.

We are not doing this from any pre-exiting images, and our laptops are running the pre-loaded Windows 10 Pro install, we are just using the in-built Windows 10 "reset this PC" feature as we have no MDM configured. We just want the laptops to be totally reset so they don't contain any company information, we're not bothered about completing the OOBE once they are wiped.

We are trying to accomplish this remotely as our users are all at home, so I need to automate it and have no user involvement in the process, I just want it to factory reset, and bring the laptop up to the off-the-shelf state configuration. We have the facility to push commands and scripts to the laptops so was hoping to do this via powershell.

The systemreset command will show interface to user and it is behavior by design , however if you are able to manage devices using Configuration Manager, you could do it using Full Wipe, take a look at:

-us/mem/configmgr/mdm/deploy-use/wipe-lock-reset-devices

From what I know there is no script to run it in silence mode and wipe system and it is behavior by design, so let say if there is possibility to do so, cybercriminals might run that script and user will lose Windows but it is available in Configuration Manager or Intune, it means PC is being managed by trusted administrator.

$methodname can bei either "doWipeMethod" or "doWipeProtectedMethod". The later one will also wipe all data from the disks, especially if you want to refurbish the devices. The downside is that "doWipeProtectedMethod" can leave some clients (depending on configuration and hardware) in an unbootable state.

Additionally "doWipeMethod" can be canceled by the user (power cycle for example), "doWipeProtectedMethod" cannot be canceled. It automatically resumes after a reboot until done. The higher risk ist worth it most of the time. If you want to be sure that the devices will be in a usable state after the wipe, use "doWipeMethod" instead.

If it is important to fully wipe the data from the disks (i.e. non-recoverable) you should make sure that all disks are bitlocker encrypted. Only with encryption you can be sure that no data is recoverable with this method.

Another way, which you can do remotely and without psexec (group policy for example), would be to create a scheduled task running as SYSTEM and executing the script. You can then execute the task on demand or with a time/date schedule.

The "OEM stuff" is found in C:\Recovery\*. If you remove all contents in this folder before you initiate the device reset, it should restore a clean windows installation without any "OEM stuff". Keep in mind though, that certain driver packages will be migrated to the new installation. Sometimes these can contain additional software packages included in the device driver package (for example audio control panels from the audio driver).

@dretzer I realized the computer I was running it on didn't have a recovery partition so even running the "systemreset -cleanpc" command wasn't working.

Kaseya allows you to run scripts as System - so even though I was running locally in picture - I was trying as System most of the time.

Thanks for the help either way.

yes. thanks. I get less HP stuff restored after a reset if I delete C:\Recevery before, but still some bits I do not want. where is it getting these last bits from that performing a fresh start from intune seems to ignore? I want omit these too

Might have to look into manual cloud reinstall at shift-f10 on first boot on each machine or a bootable USB with an unattended xml to just blow the hard drive away and start again without user interaction.

I am facing an issue while using the gcloud compute reset-windows-password command in Google Cloud. When I try to execute the following command with my main account, everything works as expected:

I've already verify both the connection and the system time and everything appears to be correct. At this point, I'm starting to suspect that the issue might be related to a lack of permissions associated with the service account. However, I'm unsure how to address this or troubleshoot further. Are there specific permissions or configurations required for a service account to successfully execute the reset-windows-password command?

You seem to be on the right path in resetting the password for instance2, to dig deeper you may need to check other factors like firewalls that may be blocking the communication between the Google Cloud Services and the VM. If possible you can try to do a restart and try again to check if the issue persists. I attached some helpful links for your use case.[1][2]

Hi, an auto update created a conflict on my desktop- system was working hard and very slow, the web suggested I reset windows 10 to an earlier version which I did and now I seem to have lost my iTunes library. No, foolishly I do not have a back up on my hard drive. How can I restore my music library. Please bare in mind I am not tech savvy. Thank you in advance

If your library contained content that was purchased from the iTunes Store, you can redownload your past purchases. Follow the steps in this article: Redownload apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books

If your library included content that you obtained from third-party sources or imported from CD's, we would not have a way to help restore those items if there was never a backup of the content. You would need to re-obtain that content through the original method in order to re-add it to your iTunes library again.

At work I work with a dual monitor setup (laptop + external monitor). But when I work at home, I just have my laptop without any external monitor. Because of this, some dialog boxes and windows I have opened while working with 2 monitors, appear off screen when working with only 1 screen... I cant see the window/dialog box, thus I can not move it, or click buttons to apply or cancel a certain setting.

I just tried it. I turned off the monitor that usually has the dialog boxes (I use 4 monitors). The dialog boxes were off-screen and not visible. I did alt space m and then the arrow keys but couldn't see the dialog boxes, but they did become visible when I moved the mouse - the top of the dialog boxes were attached to the mouse cursor. I had to move the mouse around a lot until it happened to move away from the phantom monitor and in to the active monitor. Then I could click the mouse and release the dialog box.

I have tried Space + Alt + M and It doesn't work. With the increasing necessity of Working from home due to the pandemic it is shame that Autodesk doesn't have a standard one click configuration button to reset screens....Specially since this issue can be track to 2011...10 years ago.

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