Can’t exit full screen PC Settings dialog on Server 2012 R2 via RDP

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I RDP into a Server 2012 machine for work every day. Sometimes the PC Settings dialog shows / or the Search Page shows up by accident. It is full screen. There is no working key combination I can get for the dialog to close. I need to click the red X button.

This is infuriating as (a), I don’t want to be using the mouse and (b), moving my mouse to the top right causes my RDP client to slide down its in-process menu covering the button.

Have tried Esc, Alt-F4, Ctrl-F4, F11, Ctrl-Q, Ctrl-X.

I’m able to close the new Start Menu with the Esc key just fine.

The machine is up to date with all recommended & important updates.

EDIT: I’ve tried Alt + Space as suggested.

For the search results page, all that happens is the search dialog is shown: enter image description here

Clicking Alt + Space in another ‘Settings’ type page has no effect.

Answer

Try Alt + space. It should open window dialog in upper left corner. Then use Close.

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Source : Link , Question Author : Alasdair , Answer Author : Juraj

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