Why is Picasa filling my screen?
QI don’t know if you can help me, but my entire screen is covered by a Picasa window (yes, I still use Picasa). I can’t get rid of it. Pressing the Windows key lets me use my PC as normal, but Picasa stays put. I hope you can provide an explanation and a remedy for this, because I haven’t been able to find anything relevant online.
APicasa was an excellent tool for organising and editing images, but Google killed it off six years ago. As such, it’s no longer supported, so using it could be risky. It might even result in bugs for which there will never be a fix – and this could be one of them.
Having made that clear, we have a couple of suggestions that might help. First, it could be that the Picasa program window has set itself to a size greater than the resolution of your PC monitor. Perhaps you’ve plugged in a different monitor, for example, or a Windows update has caused the unsupported Picasa to malfunction in this way.
If that were the case, the program window would fill the screen as you describe, pushing the window’s title bar off the top of the screen. This makes it difficult to move the window by dragging it, or to access the little menu that lets you control the position or size of any program window.
However, there is a keyboard shortcut that summons this menu, and it’s invaluable for situations like this, where a program window is inadvertently shunted off the top or side of the screen. To access this life-saving little menu, press Alt+space. You may not be able to see the menu if it opens off-screen, but pressing M will execute the Move command – allowing you to manoeuvre the top of the window back into view (see screenshot ). You can then left-click to drop the window where you want it.
Another possible cause is that you have Microsoft Powertoys installed. If so, this has a feature called Always On Top that you may have accidentally enabled for your Picasa window. The default keyboard shortcut to turn this on and off is Windows key+control (Ctrl)+t – so try that. You can also disable this feature in Powertoys by clicking Always On Top, then sliding the Enable Always On Top switch to its Off position (see screenshot ).