Windows 10: Win 10 Alt-Tab Order - Dword Addition - Will it work?

For keyboard nerds like me

, this is one that I use many times daily. When I installed Win 7 back in 2010, I added this dword to revert the alt-tab order to the way it worked with XP & Vista (with logical order and without a Desktop icon choice in the Order icons). Win 7 changed how this worked and I preferred the previous operation mode for alt-tab.

I added this dword to the following Registry location. Path is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>> Software>> Microsoft>> Windows>> CurrentVersion>> Explorer





I'm guessing that the Win 10 Alt-Tab order works the way Win 7 did (not sure about Win 8[.1]) .

Will this Dword addition revert it to the Vista/XP Alt-Tab Order functionality in Win 10?

:)

 

Alt-Tab in Windows 10

This was driving me a bit crazy as well. The "Easy Fix" caused me more problems as well and I reverted back using system restore. I finally went with the solution found here:

ALT+TAB - Use Classic Icons or Default Thumbnails - Windows 7 Help Forums

You do a registry change by creating a DWORD value of AltTabSettings at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

and giving it a value of 1 (one). This goes back to "classic" Alt+Tab settings.

I had gotten used to the the preview screens using Win 10 Alt+Tab and liked them. However, Alt+Tab+Tab wasn't working for me.

-Tom

 

Alt-Tab works different after Win-10 upgrade

After upgrading my Win-7 laptop to Win-10, Alt-Tab works different than before.

I use Alt-Tab a lot to swap between open applications. Before (and all previous Win versions), Alt-Tab once took me back to the previous open app - i.e. Excel & Word. Now, Alt-Tab once, just stays in the current open app. I have to hit Tab twice to go
to the last open app. AND, if I have more that 2 open apps, it's not consistent as to which open app it will go to. I have to watch the pop-up carefully to see which app it's going to go to.

I have another, older, computer that had Vista, so the upgrade to Win-10 was not available. I installed a fresh, complete, Win-10 install and Alt-Tab works that same as in previous Win versions.

So, it seems something in my "upgrade" caused this unusual action.

Any ideas? This is very frustrating!

 

Hello Voyager,

Yep, having classic ALT+TAB still works in Windows 10. *Smile

ALT+TAB - Use Classic Icons or Default Thumbnails - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

This also works:
Press and hold right Alt, click left Alt then Tab and Tab to select.

 

Shawn





The Win 10 keyboard/nerd factor is looking better and better for me *Smile

Wish I had seen your Alt-Tab Tutorial back in the day. I found that info on some blog somewhere after googl'ing a while that day. Maybe they got it from you *Smile

Edwin

Thanks for the screencap. I saved that in my "Win 10 Misc Info" file so I don't have to trust my weak RAM (the sticks between my ears) *Smile

 

You're most welcome. Glad we could help. *Smile