Re: Alt-Tab task switching is bad in xp

Anando [MS-MVP] wrote:

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 ?

yes. I have installed xp a total of 5 times by now. and three
out of them were clean installs (formats partition), but the
above problem I faced in every one.

Frankly, I use alt-tab only in winword when I open two or three
word files and copy-paste text from one word file to other. And
I always had that problem, thus I remember correctly and sadly.

I had posted another update about alt-tab in reply to another
thread. I am quoting that here as it is relevant here also.


jg wrote:

why version one?
there are latest power for xp from Microsoft that works with
SP 2
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowe
rt oys.mspx


I downloaded and installed Alt-tab powertoy which gives better
display of contents of windows when I press alt-tab.

However, every program icon is appearing twice in that alt-tab
window. when I am at one of icon, there is no display of the
content, and when I am in the other icon, the content of window
gets displayed.

It is still working, however, it is a waste to skip over the
useless double icons.

How to rectify it?

I had not uninstalled the previous alt-tab switcher and had
installed over and above it. It did give the message that
previous program is there, and had asked me whether to
overwrite. I had given yes.

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thanks.
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Rawat
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