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Reputation: 1843

Unable to restore Visual Studio 2022 window (IDE itself) after minimizing

I have Visual Studio 2022, newest version 17.1.0 running on Windows 10 Pro (up to date). This just started happening yesterday, so maybe it has something to do with the new update.

I open a solution, everything is fine. If I minimize Visual Studio, I can't get it back.

It's running. I can see the toolbar icon looks like it's supposed to when an app is running and I can see it in Task Manager. But I can't get it back on the screen (I have a single monitor setup). It makes the error sound, and does nothing. I can right-click and open another instance, or I can right-click and select "close window", but I can't interact with the original instance at all. If I try to ALT-TAB to it, I can see it, but then it still just makes an error sound and won't come back up. If I hover over the taskbar button, it will show me the window and I can right-click on that and choose "restore" or "maximize", and that's the only way I can get it back.

It seems to do this for multiple solutions, but it's fairly consistent, once it's minimized I can't get it back without closing and reopening the solution or the right-click thing. Anyone run into something like this?

Upvotes: 107

Views: 8016

Answers (9)

Petter Ivarsson
Petter Ivarsson

Reputation: 703

Tried all the above suggestions with no luck until I figured out that I recently had disconnected from an external display aside my laptop. Some fiddling in display settings solved it.

Upvotes: 0

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 21

You can try following these steps:

  • left-click one the Taskbar icon
  • right-click on the instance
  • select Restore or Maximize to get back to the IDE

I had the same issue with Version 17.1.0.

Upvotes: 2

Paul Farry
Paul Farry

Reputation: 4768

I've also found a solution. Just hover your mouse over the icon in the task bar so that the preview is showing, then RightClick -> Restore directly on the preview window rather than needing to launch other tools, task manager etc.

Another solution I've found, is to remove the content of your clipboard. (Start -> Run ... Put some text there copy it). Now you can restore

Upvotes: 4

Anthony Parkhurst
Anthony Parkhurst

Reputation: 381

I do a shift+Right-Click on the icon in the task bar, then select Maximize.

That works for me. [This is still an issue with 17.1.1]

Upvotes: 28

Gary Boone
Gary Boone

Reputation: 31

Triple clicking it works for me, but it's still a workaround. (Three times as fast as you can)

Upvotes: 3

Crunchers3
Crunchers3

Reputation: 180

Like everyone else, I too am having this issue. I can get it to work with a Shift-Right click, and either maximize or restore works to bring the window to the front. Yet as soon as I minimize again, it breaks.

It appears that using the minimize button on the VS window itself is what breaks it. If you use the Windows taskbar, it minimizes and restores as expected.

Upvotes: 0

H.D.
H.D.

Reputation: 731

Have the same problem. Only awkward workaround I found so far was to use Process Explorer from Sysinternals, search for a process named devenv.exe, right click -> Window -> Bring To Front.

Update - easier workaround: Click on the VS icon on the taskbar. Once it is selected, press Windows + Cursor Up.

Upvotes: 63

transit-samuelgrondin
transit-samuelgrondin

Reputation: 43

I have the same problem ever since I updated to VS 2022 17.1. It seems we'll have to wait for an update that fixes the problem.

I have a workaround that works well whether you have multiple vs instances opened and stacked in your taskbar or not.

You simply have to right click the instance you want to restore in the taskbar and select the Maximize option

Upvotes: 4

Bellarmine Head
Bellarmine Head

Reputation: 3647

This was happening to me regularly with VS 2022 17.1.

So I installed Feature update to Windows 10, version 21H2 to see if that helped, and thus far I have not run into the issue.

Upvotes: 0

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