This issue has come up multiple times. To keep the discussion in one place, please read the v8.7 Search Results section of the missing-panel FAQ, and then continue any discussion in the v8.7 Search Results Missing topic.

@PeterJones

delete the whole <GUIConfig name=“DockingManager” …>…</GUIConfig> section

I tried this and it worked, the search results window now shows up AND the status bar now appears normal (i.e. not cropped).

delete the whole <GUIConfig name=“DockingManager” …>…</GUIConfig> section

I will try your suggestion, thanks.

altho, on occasion I connect two identical flat panel monitors in my cube at work, not sure what kind they are since I mostly work remote.

I simply do a Search…

i.e. Search -> Find and fill in the Find What text and click Find All in Current Document or Find All in All Opened Documents… the search results window is not showing up.

I have multiple instances of Notepad++ open…
and today, quite by accident, I discovered the following:
the search results window shows up for the first and last instances of Notepad++ but not for the other instances.

:)

Deleting the whole file also eliminates all your Settings > Preferences choices, so don’t do that if you’ve customized Notepad++ preferences.

Instead, use a more targeted version where you exit Notepad++, edit %AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml, and delete the group of lines I showed in this post in another discussion, save, then restart Notepad++. (You cannot edit config.xml inside Notepad++, because it changes it when it exits, so your change would be lost.)

update: BTW: this reset procedure was described in our FAQ more than a year ago.

And that did the trick!

This is mainly useful when the window or dialog box

As @joecar-777 said, it was the Search Results window (the extra panel or window from Find All In Current Document and similar Find-in-Files/F-i-Projects actions) that isn’t showing up, not the Find dialog that isn’t showing up.

As @xomx stated in this discussion, there seem to be a lot of Search Results (via Find All and similar interfaces)-related issues in 8.7.

So the more interesting question is whether @joecar-777 has one or more HiDPI monitors – are you using one monitor, or more than one? If just one, is it “high DPI” or not? And if multi-monitors, are the monitors all the same DPI density, or is there a mix of DPI and/or screen resolutions involved?

For example, Ctrl+F Ctrl+F will first open the Find window and the second Ctrl+F will center and resize it to the default location for the window. This also works for Ctrl+H Ctrl+H for Replace, Ctrl+Shift+F Ctrl+Shift+F for Find in Files, and Ctrl+M Ctrl+M for Mark.

Could you expand on how to replicate this bug? For example, provide a workflow that leads to this bug appearing, and tell us if there was an older version of Notepad++ that does not have this problem. You may also wish to insert ?->Debug Info... into your response, to give us a better understanding of your setup.