Comments on: Create a “Switch Between Windows” Shortcut in Windows 7

By: ruben

ruben — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:29:49 +0000

i have the latest directx, but i have a radeon 4200 which is integratedi believe
i dont know if that is causing the problem

By: George Birbilis

George Birbilis — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:37:01 +0000

Probably you have the very low end version of Windows 7 that may not include Aero Desktop (if I’m correct, cause that was the case with Vista Home Basic)

Else it’s an issue with either your keyboard or the keyboard layout you’ve told the system you’re using, although that has low probability

Or could be that you don’t have latest graphics card drivers installed (e.g. if you have NVIDIA card can get them via autodetection [using IE] from http://www.nvidia.com, else try the free speccy from piriform.com or Everest or SiSoftware’s Sandra, or run dxdiag.exe to find out what graphics card you have).

Should also install latest DirectX (try http://www.microsoft.com/directx)

By: Corby

Corby — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:45:53 +0000

I am using windows 7 32 bit and it works fine for me

By: ruben

ruben — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:30:12 +0000

I still can’t do it! Win + Tab doesnt work, the shortcut doesnt work. Is it because I have Windows 7 32bit?

By: George Birbilis

George Birbilis — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:59:57 +0000

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By: George Birbilis

George Birbilis — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:58:31 +0000

It’s WIN+TAB (Windows key), not ALT+TAB to see the 3D view for switching between windows (BTW holding SHIFT down in both “views” does it backwards, while quickly depressing ALT key instead of holding it down switches between current and last selected window back and forth)

BTW Vista does have this icon at the quick launch toolbar, but it’s nice to know how to make your own for Win7 if you don’t have quick launch icons shown (I suppose that is the default in Win7). Also nice to know the path to that extra icons DLL

By: Ishi

Ishi — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:13:49 +0000

This is useful, but I think the shortcut works way better if you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it. Though I’m not sure why you think pressing ALT + TAB is really that difficult! I do it all the time and it’s pretty normal for most people.