Re: Alt-Tab task switching is bad in xp

I am not sure, but something is not right on your end. Alt-Tab has always worked fine on my 4
machines here, running all flavours of Windows XP. Does this happen even on a clean install of
Windows XP on your machine ?

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"V S Rawat" <VSRawat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:xn0ej75bmvlm7000a@xxxxxxxxxxx
In 98se, I was happily switching between running programs/
windows by pressing alt-tab which opened a window showing all
the running program and then I could switch between them by tab
or shift-tab.

Then, wherever I used to stop, that program used to become the
one in which I work then onwards.

That was very very convenient when I had to cut-paste things
between different windows.

However, in xp, that function has gone bad.
- The opening of that alt-tab window on pressing the keys is
very slow.

- Sometimes it works, but often it doesn't. I keep on pressing
alt-tab, but the curson remains in the window in which I
previously was.

What am I doing wrongly. I can't believer that MS will spoil a
perfectly working thing.

I have selected "activation follows mouse", so the window on
which my mouse cursor is, becomes my active window (though I did
not choose auto-raise).

By any chance, could it be causing problem? Because, it is
possible that it changes the focus to other window, but soon
finds that my mouse cursor is in the other window and takes the
focus back to my previous window. However, the same settings
were there in my 98se and were working well.

How to get that 98se like functionality in xp?

thanks.
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