Alt-Tab disappears too quick

When I press Alt-Tab I get a 1 second display of the program icons and
then it disappears, so I can't change programs. I see a lot of
discussion here about Vista style program switching but not about this
problem. Maybe I have some vista program switching feature turned off.
I turned off a lot of vista's visual tricks to try to speed it up. In
any case my alt-tab behaves as in XP. But in XP you could hit Alt-tab
and as long as you held alt you could see the list of icons for
various programs and tab to the one you want. In my case that little
pop-up window of icons only stays for a second and disappears. If I'm
real quick I can switch to the previous program, but generally I can't
even do that. My keyboard has no problem knowing when I'm holding alt,
as I can test this in a number of ways (e.g. typing characters while
holding alt behaves different than without alt). So why won't my pop-
up of program icons stay while I hold alt?

Thanks

njem;746966 Wrote:
> When I press Alt-Tab I get a 1 second display of the program icons an
> then it disappears, so I can't change programs. I see a lot o
> discussion here about Vista style program switching but not about thi
> problem. Maybe I have some vista program switching feature turned off
> I turned off a lot of vista's visual tricks to try to speed it up. I
> any case my alt-tab behaves as in XP. But in XP you could hit Alt-ta
> and as long as you held alt you could see the list of icons fo
> various programs and tab to the one you want. In my case that littl
> pop-up window of icons only stays for a second and disappears. If I'
> real quick I can switch to the previous program, but generally I can'
> even do that. My keyboard has no problem knowing when I'm holding alt
> as I can test this in a number of ways (e.g. typing characters whil
> holding alt behaves different than without alt). So why won't my pop
> up of program icons stay while I hold alt
>
> Thank

Hi Njem

You can press Ctrl+Alt+Tab to have it stay until you click on or selec
the one you want instead

Hope this helps
Shaw

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Thanks for the suggestion. I don't know if that would be a solution if
it did work, but it doesn't on the vista system, or on an XP system I
tried.

On Jun 14, 2:56 pm, Brink <gu...@unknown-email.com> wrote:
> You can press Ctrl+Alt+Tab to have it stay until you click on or select
> the one you want instead.
>

Go to Control Panel -> Advanced (or Advanced System Settings) -> in the
section Performance click on "Settings..." button -> in the custom list
of Visual Effects uncheck "Enable Aero Peek" -> click "Apply" button

Now the alt-tab window will stay afloat as long as you want. Worked for
me.


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