TRYED Feb 4, 2023 @ 4:28pm
Steam Client Full Screne?
My Steam Client is stuck on full screen and I don't know how to turn it back to window mode. It has been like that for the past week. Any recommendations on changing it back? Thanks!

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Jaunitta 🌸 Feb 4, 2023 @ 4:33pm 
In the browser use Esc to reduce size. What resolurion is the web page?
In desktop
Drag the window down and away from the edges that unsticks it.
Then just use the center rectangle for window.
Or drag in the bottom corner inwards or top corner inwards to make window smaller.
To save settings for this exit Steam by closing chat and then use the Steam top left>exit or at the bottom right r/click and exit.
When Steam is just closed Steam settings window setting are not saved and applied.
Last edited by Jaunitta 🌸; Feb 4, 2023 @ 4:36pm
TRYED Feb 4, 2023 @ 4:36pm 
Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:
Drag the window down and away from the edges that unsticks it.
Then just use the center rectangle for window.
Or drag in the bottom corner inwards or top corner inwards to make window smaller.
To save settings for this exit Steam by closing chat and then use the Steam top left>exit or at the bottom right r/click and exit.
When Steam is just closed Steam settings window setting are not saved and applied.


It worked for the left, bottom and right sides of the frame, but did not work for the top. Top is still stuck.

https://ibb.co/xLLB5qK
Last edited by TRYED; Feb 4, 2023 @ 4:39pm
Jaunitta 🌸 Feb 4, 2023 @ 4:40pm 
F11
Last edited by Jaunitta 🌸; Feb 4, 2023 @ 4:47pm
TRYED Feb 4, 2023 @ 4:48pm 
Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:
F11

Thanks, but nope! I even cleared my cache. Still nothing.
Jaunitta 🌸 Feb 4, 2023 @ 4:54pm 
F11 worked on my Chrome browser.
Try F4
Is your taskbar locked.
Are you on a desktop?
Change your desktop resolution to smaller just to for a minute to see if the browser gets unstuck
We need the search bar to type in to to get to settings.
Found this

Press “Ctl-Alt-Del”. The Windows menu will appear and allow you to start Task Manage. Open Task Manager and open the Processes window. Select “show processes for all users”. Sort the processes. Kill each process showing “chrome.exe *32”. That will close all the Chrome windows. I suspect you had a chrome process running in full screen and it was hogging the entire desktop Full Screen. You should be able to open chrome normally. Don’t select to restore the previous chrome process. Just click on the “X” to the right and you can move on.
Last edited by Jaunitta 🌸; Feb 4, 2023 @ 5:00pm
TRYED Feb 4, 2023 @ 5:22pm 
Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:
F11 worked on my Chrome browser.
Try F4
Is your taskbar locked.
Are you on a desktop?
Change your desktop resolution to smaller just to for a minute to see if the browser gets unstuck
We need the search bar to type in to to get to settings.
Found this

Press “Ctl-Alt-Del”. The Windows menu will appear and allow you to start Task Manage. Open Task Manager and open the Processes window. Select “show processes for all users”. Sort the processes. Kill each process showing “chrome.exe *32”. That will close all the Chrome windows. I suspect you had a chrome process running in full screen and it was hogging the entire desktop Full Screen. You should be able to open chrome normally. Don’t select to restore the previous chrome process. Just click on the “X” to the right and you can move on.

I just tried all of that and still a no go. Although I use Chrome, it was not on and no processes were on. I am using Firefox atm. I still appreciate the help.
Jaunitta 🌸 Feb 4, 2023 @ 5:50pm 
F11 also works on Firefox just tested it. Not F plus 11
Maybe hold F11 with Fn if on a laptop.
Last edited by Jaunitta 🌸; Feb 4, 2023 @ 5:50pm
CSX Feb 4, 2023 @ 7:31pm 
something you can try:
Hold Shift on the keyboard and right-click on Steam in the task bar. Now you should have several options.
One of them is move. That allows you to move the window with the arrow keys, but it will also pin the window to the mouse cursor so you can move it down.

looks like here https://www.nextofwindows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Shift-Right-Click-on-object-on-Taskbar.png
TRYED Feb 6, 2023 @ 4:08pm 
Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:
F11 also works on Firefox just tested it. Not F plus 11
Maybe hold F11 with Fn if on a laptop.

Yes that does work on Firefox, but I am not sure what Firefox has to do with the Steam Client.
TRYED Feb 6, 2023 @ 4:09pm 
Originally posted by CSX:
something you can try:
Hold Shift on the keyboard and right-click on Steam in the task bar. Now you should have several options.
One of them is move. That allows you to move the window with the arrow keys, but it will also pin the window to the mouse cursor so you can move it down.

looks like here https://www.nextofwindows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Shift-Right-Click-on-object-on-Taskbar.png

Thanks, I just tried that. The Steam Client would not move from the top. Grr!!
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