Windows 10: ALT+TAB making hidden taskbar not showing up when hovering mouse

This bug has happens as long as I can remember (and still happening in 1909), and I decided to post about it today. If you set the taskbar to auto-hide in desktop mode, and when pressing ALT+TAB to switch between windows, taskbar won't show when you hover mouse over the bottom of the screen. Only force pressing the WIN key on keyboard will makes it reappear.

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showing titles and icons, NOT images, for alt-tab and taskbar hovering


I'm a new windows 10 latptop owner, previously used windows 7 with the classic theme. In both win 7 aero and in win 10, I dislike how the use of alt-tab and hovering over taskbar icons shows a series of miniatures images of windows. This is a terrible user interface --- all my windows are dense with text and could be scrolled to any point, so they can't be identified from the image. What I need to see are window titles. Or in the case of alt-tab, icons. Win 10 does show the titles but not stacked vertically, making them difficult to scan by eye. Same with icons---they are tiny little things in a sea of useless image.

So can I change the win 10 theme to show a vertical stack of window titles when hovering over the taskbar, and to show icons when doing alt-tab switching?

Mike

 

Taskbar not showing while alt-tabbed with multiple monitors

Hi LAK770,

I have been researching on this issue and it seems that this feature is by design. Usually, most of the games override the Windows function when running in Full screen mode.

However, the Taskbar is hidden when you switch applications to Full Screen Mode and Alt+Tab key shows the open applications, but the Taskbar will be hidden until you switch to another application or hover the mouse at the Taskbar location. Unfortunately,
registry edits cannot further customize for the option that you are looking for.

Alternatively, you can use the Windows Key + T when running any application in full screen mode.

I would suggest you to provide your feedback on our Feedback Hub and our
developers can have a look into this feedback.

I will continue to check on this and if there are any alternatives available, I will certainly keep you posted.

Regards,

Vivian S

 

Taskbar not showing while alt-tabbed with multiple monitors

I'm running two monitors, monitor A is my main monitor, and monitor B is my secondary i use for videos and everything while gaming. When I have a game on monitor A and I alt+tab out to a window on my second monitor, the taskbar doesn't show up. It's the
same when i click off my game on monitor A to monitor B. In windows 7 whenever I did this the taskbar would show up, but now unless i specifically alt+tab to a window on monitor A taskbar will not show up. Doesn't anyone know a registry or way to make it so
i don't have to keep going to windows on monitor A to make the taskbar show up.