MB Air 13", cannot move windows to secondary monitor

MB Air 13", cannot move windows to secondary monitor. The pointer moves to the secondary monitor, but when I grab a window and move it, it stops at the screen border

Comment from Berntfromhasselby:
Thanks for the good advice, but it was too advanced for me; I do not know how to go to setup or startup. Then I thought I can search for it in "help", but I did not find anything about setup there. I only found something about safe start, where I had to switch off the computer and then press "shift" immediately after a sound during start. I tried that, but nothing special happened. So I thought I had to give up, and remembered once I asked a friend, who is computer specialist, why the help often is of no help. He said that it is obviously very difficult to help people by the help function.
Then I set the computer to sleep. For some reason I started it again, and NOW it was quick! It was repaired!?! So the next question is:
Do MacBook Airs also need to be switched off sometimes, so they do not become slow (when only using sleep)? Are they somewhat similar to PCs which can become slow with time due to accumulation of some trash (and are difficult to make quick)?
Then today I liked to listen to Mozart's beautiful 20th piano concerto on You tube, but now it had no sound?! I tried help again and found Sound, but the were no loudspeakers available and everything there was grey, so I could not change anything..... Do I have to go to some service? I took my other MacBook Air (11") and listened to Mozart and noticed that I need to have two of the best and most expensive computers in the world to be sure to have one working....
Then I remembered the most important PC-rule I learnt from my daughter's boyfriend: if you have some problem, restart! I did so and the sound was there again, probably it disappeared during the safe start procedure. "If anything can go wrong, it will." Ironically, I have been working as professor at a technical university, but in fiber optics, not with computers...
I any case, it is good now, so the problem is solved. Thanks again!

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