Alt+Tab

[Alex Clark]

Hi all,

I'm running XP Pro 64bit SP2, and I've noticed a weird issue with Alt+Tab.
Sometimes when I'm alternating between two applications, and I have (for
example) a half dozen windows open in total, XP will randomly pick a
completely different window to switch to instead of letting me alternate
back and forth.

Has anyone else experienced this? I haven't found any comparable
experiences during a bit of Googling, so it's hard to tell if there's even a
patch available. Gets rather frustrating after a while though!

TIA,
Alex

 

[Tony Sperling]

Re: Alt+Tab

Yes, I've seen this as well. Mind you, I'm not usually working with those
numbers of open windows, so I'm only mildly annoyed by it. I really only
notice this when I am minimizing a fullscreen simulator and then [Alt+Tab]
starts cykling between the rest of the open windows that are currently
maximized on the desktop. I didn't notice any randomness about it, but that
may simply be a result of the number of windows that are involved in the
operation.

If this is a major issue for you, I would contemplate if you may be slightly
short of memory (swap volume?) or, I think it is most likely a Video Driver
issue, keeping in mind that most recent work on video drivers have been
focused on the Vista platform.

I have not found anything to resolve this, but I also didn't look for any
fix. Nice one, if we can get some feed-back on this.


Tony. . .



"Alex Clark" <quanta@noemail.noemail> wrote in message
news:OULeL3F6IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running XP Pro 64bit SP2, and I've noticed a weird issue with Alt+Tab.
> Sometimes when I'm alternating between two applications, and I have (for
> example) a half dozen windows open in total, XP will randomly pick a
> completely different window to switch to instead of letting me alternate
> back and forth.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this? I haven't found any comparable
> experiences during a bit of Googling, so it's hard to tell if there's even
a
> patch available. Gets rather frustrating after a while though!
>
> TIA,
> Alex
>
>