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Problem with Alt-Tab task switcher
Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 2:02 am
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed Graham
(4 messages posted)
When I hold down Alt and press and release Tab, the small list of icons flashes up
briefly in the centre of the screen but then disappears (instead of remaining visible),
with the result that I can't tab through the various open windows on my system.
The same behaviour can be observed when using an application like Visual Studio that
makes use of Ctrl Tab for looping through open documents -- the list of icons appears
fleetingly and then goes again. Even some tool-tips are affected; e.g., when debugging
in Visual Studio and hovering over a variable to see its contents, I now find that
the mini pop-up window flicks off almost immediately.
This has just started happening (at about 11pm last night), without my having changed
anything at all; when I stopped for dinner it was all fine and when I came back an
hour later (having left the machine on), it had gone wrong. The change has survived
numerous reboots and seems permanent; given the widespread effects I've described,
I'm wondering whether some low-level systems file has been compromised somehow.
This actually happened to me at the end of last year, when I ended up reinstalling
the OS, which is 64-bit Windows Server 2003. (Why I am using a server platform for
development is a good question -- I am building web-sites and it is handy to be able
to have a powerful web-server available locally.)
All answers, links and other messages of support very gratefully received!
Ed Graham
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