Really weird problem with serial monitor

Hi folks!

I'm facing a really weird problem.

Environment details:

Arduino IDE 1.6.5
OS: Windows 10 x64 and Windows 7 professional x64, (the problem occurs on both)

I can build my projects and download them without any problem in my arduino uno. But when it comes to open the serial monitor the problem occurs. It seems that the serial monitor opens indeed (I mean the serial monitor process) but not the window...

You can check the image attched.

For testing purpose the code running on the board was the simple "analog in serial out" example.

At first I thought that it was some problem with my drivers or something like that. Then I tried to use Putty to connect with my board and receive the messages and the result was: worked smoothly!

Do you have any idea about this problem that I'm facing?

Uh, if you click on that serial monitor window, the part you have highlighted, it should come to the front. It looks like it just doesn't have focus (ie, it's "behind" the other window).

Somehow if your serial monitor is open and not in front of other windows, pressing the serial monitor button does NOT move it to the front. Like you showed, there are 2 windows. So just click on task bar and select the serial monitor's window. It should then be displayed in the front.

Thank you for the prompt answer.

Clicking on the serial monitor window doesn't brings it to front... That was the first thing I did...

Any other idea?

I'm not a big Windows fan, but did experience a similar challenge with Ubuntu. It wasn't the serial monitor window problem, but the IDE window instead.

Right click on the window title frame. There my be a selection there for "Always on top". If that is selected, deselect it.

Can you minimize all the other windows to check if it's behind them?

Or do you use a multi monitor setup and it poped up at another screen?