Application screens lost on second monitor....

Hello,
I had a second monitor hooked up and I had some app windows on that screen but I returned the monitor this morning, now I can view those apps anymore...they are stuck over on that non-existing screen now....how do you get your back onto the main monitor? i tried restarting but no go....
thanks!

Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder, and run scripts such as:
tell application "Finder"
set position of window 1 to {204, 96, 819, 501}
end tell
changing the script to move each window in turn. The application's name in the first line and the first number in the second line specify which window to target.
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