Comments on: How to Resize a Window That is Too Big or Off Screen in Mac OS

By: meera

meera — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:52:03 +0000

you are a genius! also been looking at all sorts of remedies but only yours has worked. many thanks.

By: Earl Fox

Earl Fox — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:48:55 +0000

Nothing works for me too – I’m trying to use Zoiper application and “Zoom” button aren’t available

By: dangeroustofu

dangeroustofu — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:39:41 +0000

THANK YOU! Been looking everywhere- you had the ONLY solution that worked for me! I will remember this!!!!

By: Nina

Nina — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:15:12 +0000

No matter what I try, nothing will work! (This is the Garage Band screen that’s acting up by the way.) I have tried pushing the green button, and when I go to window and hit Minimize, it just makes the screen go down to the tool bar! I need to see the whole screen, because I can’t hit the record button or go to all of the effects!

By: reg

reg — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:57:51 +0000

I have the same problem, I really HATE my mac, sorry! The same as Jordan has….. but, in my case I only have one program that does this, Adobe Camera Raw, does anyone have any ideas? Maybe the problem is in the Adobe program, not the mac?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:44:12 +0000

both the green button and zoom button are unavailable for this window, and the resolution won’t let me go any further than 1280×800 on my macbook. What am I supposed to do?

By: kahli

kahli — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:07:16 +0000

That helps on my mac but not my macbook. It doesnt let me go bigger than 1280×800 and the window is still cut off.

By: dilgreen

dilgreen — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:36:31 +0000

I have a tip for this. A colleague had changed screens, and was in the habit of having modal ‘windowshade’ dialog boxes (like the ‘attach’ dialog for mail) set at full screen. After switching screens, not only the re-size handle, but the ‘cancel’ and ‘choose file’ buttons were inaccessible too! no amount of green button clicking or window zooming did anything, until I performed the following actions:
1. Open System Preferences>Displays
2. change resolution to something small – 848×480
3. click green button to zoom window – it still doesn’t fit
4. change screen resolution to largest practical
5. window is now small!
(if necessary, try two clicks at stage 3, and green click at stage 5.)

By: f1

f1 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:30:48 +0000

Cinch is very nice app for it

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:47:49 +0000

I have an mac Mini with a NEC monitor. The window of whatever application is running (Firefox, Word, etc) is HUGE. I have tried green button, Zoom, apple and the minus sign – nothing reduces the size of the window or gets all the material in on the screen (into) the window

By: Shaf

Shaf — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:40:30 +0000

I believe you can also hold ⌥ and click the green + button.

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:42:55 +0000

Oh, this is a great tip; however, when those pesky Photoshop filters or adjustment windows are completely off-screen after disconnecting from an external display, there’s not even a window to click on. Is there a fix for that? So far, I’ve had to remember to move all the filter windows I’ve used during that session onto the smaller laptop screen before quitting PS, or else I won’t find some of them at all.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:16:11 +0000

For Safari
http://sixfoot1.com/safari-extensions/resizer/