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Alt-Tab is the common name for a keyboard shortcut that has been in Microsoft Windows since Windows 3.0. This shortcut switches between top-level windows without using the mouse; hence it was named Task Switcher.

Alt-Tab is the common name for a keyboard shortcut that has been in Microsoft Windows since Windows 3.0. This shortcut switches between top-level windows without using the mouse; hence it was named Task Switcher (Flip in Windows Vista).

Perhaps the most common use of Alt-Tab is to alternate between the two most recent tasks, but it can also be used to switch to any running program that has a top-level window.

The window environment maintains a Z-order list of top-level windows (tasks) with the most recently used tasks at the front, so the most recently used tasks can be switched to the most quickly.

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Running winforms app from debugger disables alt-tab switching to form

I have a Winforms app with a main form where a multiline text box is updated during a long running process. I would like to be able to use the ALT-TAB facility of Windows to switch away from the Visual Studio 2012 IDE to watch the form being updated…
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Hiding a VB.Net App from the Task List and ALT+TAB Order?

I'm creating a small checker app that I want to run in the background, it just has a simple timer that checks that a certain process is running, however I want to hide this from the Alt-Tab switcher and the Task List is possible too. I came across…
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How to detect if a user pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del or Alt-Tab so that I may minimize my program?

I'm writing a program in C++ using DirectX 11, and I would like to have it so that my program minimizes whenever a user presses Ctrl-Alt-Del or Alt-Tab. Getting the window itself to minimize is the easy part, as all I have to do is call this…
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How to hide a window from the Alt-Tab switcher?

I have an winforms application, in which Im making it to hide in the tray menu when clicking the close button. I have used trayicon and notifyicon in this. The following is the code For minimizing to the system tray public void MinimizeToTray() { …
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How to display only my application forms when pressing Key1 + Key2, just like Alt + Tab does in Windows?

My application has several forms. What I want to do is to be able to switch between them (and only between them) using a pair of predefined keys (say Keys.A + Keys.B), just like ALT + TAB does for Windows (windows are shown in foreground). I tried…
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Show a list of applications like alt-tab in Win7

I am trying to print a list of running applications like alt-tab would give me. Here are what I have done so far: 1.In the beginning I tried EnumWindows, but I got hundreds of entries. 2.I found some similar questions and they led me to the blog of…
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Disabling ALT - TAB only while a specific application is running using auto hot key

Id like to be able to run an .exe that launches a game, disables the use of Alt-Tab(Preferably only when the game is in focus), then waits for me to exit the game manually before terminating the script. So far all I have is run C:\Program Files…
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Ubunto12.04-Gnome3 -- Show icon in alt-tab menu using .desktop file

After Googling for hours, I didn't find any answer for the following issue and so glad if anyone could help. I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Gnome-shell 3.4.1. Consider the following simple program in file $HOME/a.py which I have made it…
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Alt-Tab notification on panels within a form

I'm trying to clear some variable on a panel, for example, if I had a bool which lets me know when I'm click dragging on a panel's surface I set this to false when a MouseUp event occurs (this may or may not be correct way to do this but serves as…
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Use AutoHotKey to switch to the most recently opened app in the ACTIVE monitor?

I've been using a short AutoHotKey script to simulate Alt Tab on Windows 10 using the middle mouse button, so that I can quickly open my most recently opened app, or toggle between two apps, with the click of a button. This is what I'm using…
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