Why -- and how to fix -- is the Vista TASK SWITCHING ORDER so badly broken/designed

Why -- and how to fix -- is the Vista TASK SWITCHING ORDER so badly
broken/designed?

This is just driving me crazy -- under older versions of Windows you could
trivially predict
where a program would be in the task switching order, last program used 1st,
previous next,
etc.

Now is is (sometimes) seemingly random -- other times in the older order.

I do understand some concept of closing the window, or perhaps iconizing the
program, that
might put the task at the END of the switching order but this is not even
what Vista does.

It frequently will put the most recently used program at the end, OR near
but not AT the end.


Is there some registry setting to restore simply the old behavior?

Or to restore any logical, predictable behavior?

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