Popups opening on random desktop screen, not where cursor is

If I for example right-click (or shift-delete) on (a) file(s) for deletion in Explorer, the popup window that asks me if I I'm sure I want to delete them can open on a random other screen (I have 4 screens). Based on whether it's a white popup on a white app screen or dark on a dark, it can be so at the extremities of my peripheral vision that I don't even noticed it's opened and I'm there thinking "where's my confirmation popup?".

Is there not an option to force popup windows dialogs to always open near the cursor? It's almost a 100% guarantee that it's where I'm looking.

I'm not sure if you can have a dialog box pop up next to the cursor. But you can have the mouse go towards that dialoge box:


But I did find this:
Make all Dialog Boxes and Browser Popups come up where the Cursor is - DonationCoder.com
which leads to:

There's an app called: DialogMove.exe
on that forum. That link doesn't seem to work though. But there is an AutoHotkey script link there that seems to be valid.

pepanee said:

I'm not sure if you can have a dialog box pop up next to the cursor. But you can have the mouse go towards that dialoge box:

Automatically move the mouse pointer to the dialog box in Windows 11

Here is a small tip on how you can make your mouse pointer move automatically to the default button in the dialog box in Windows 11/10.

www.thewindowsclub.com

But I did find this:
Make all Dialog Boxes and Browser Popups come up where the Cursor is - DonationCoder.com
which leads to:

IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position - DonationCoder.com

IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position - DonationCoder.com

www.donationcoder.com

There's an app called: DialogMove.exe
on that forum. That link doesn't seem to work though. But there is an AutoHotkey script link there that seems to be valid.

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I had a long and boring Zoom meeting since I posted the question and I knocked up my own equivalent of DialogMove with .NET C#. It doesn't use AutoHotkey. So far I've only tested it with Win + R, and that dialog appears wherever the cursor is. It basically runs in the background waiting for the EVENT_SYSTEM_DIALOGSTART event (SetWinEventHook 0x10) and makes use of GetCursorPos, GetWindowRect, and SetWindowPos. With some of the more modern Windows applications the dialog box is stuck within the window it's spawned from so it doesn't catch those, but they're not the ones I'm after anyway so that's all good.