Windows 10: Unable to Tab out of Fullscreen Games

Hello,

When I had Windows 7 I was able to press the Windows key to tab out of Fullscreen Games and Applications. With Windows 10 I am unable to tab out of Fullscreen Games and Applications. Is there a setting or something that I am missing? I have tried everything, Please Help.

Thanks,
Peter

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Issues with brightness and mouse

Original title: Alt+Tab ignores fullscreen?

I have been using windows 10 since I got this new computer and it has worked perfectly fine. Until the anniversary update recently. I play games in fullscreen and I usually alt+tab pretty often to look at other things in chrome and such. It was always a
slow alt+tab on a black screen like it should be, but now it is an instant alt+tab like my game isn't fullscreen. This sounds great, sure, but it causes a lot of problems with things now.

My first problem is that some games I play have the brightness / gamma raised in game so I can see better. When I alt+tab the brightness carries over to my desktop which makes it very bright on my eyes. When I then alt+tab back in the game it removes the
brightness setting completely in game which I then have to reset back to what it was. This happens every time I alt+tab, which is often.

My second issue is mouse delay. Fullscreen doesn't cause mouse delay (not sure the reason behind it, but it doesn't). But now, since it doesn't seem to think my game is in fullscreen anymore I have a lot of mouse delay as if I am in windowed borderless mode.
I've tried changing my settings off and back on to fullscreen and such but it does not fix it.

Thanks ahead of time.

Edit: It is also not just one game, it is every game / every program.

 

Black screen after exiting a game (Windows 10 Pro)

Another fix I found was to run games in Borderless fullscreen windows. Windows then treats the game as just another open window which you can tab in and out of as much as you like.

Hope this helps some of you.

 

The start menu has been made to be less intrusive compared to earlier versions of windows, you can press ALT+TAB to achieve the same thing.

 

ALT+TAB does not work for me

 

Works for me, very strange, i'll ask a few others and see if anythings been changed recently.

 

Try Alt+Enter. won't. Won't minimize to the Task Bar, but will?should take it from full screen to windowed mode.

 

Having a "legacy" app like notepad running in the background helps with the switching.

Most of the times I use this:
keep pressing Win key,
then press D to Show desktop and force the game to minimize,
(optionally) then press Tab to Show window previews,
then press 1 2 3 4 etc. = taskbar position of the app I want to switch to (pinned icons counts, too)

Even easier, I move the game taskbar button to the far left, then use Win+1 to switch to/from

 

When this happens, my first instinct is to hit [Ctrl + Alt + Del] and open task manager.

That almost always tabs me out. Then I leave another Window open in the background and alt-tab works from then on.