Various ways to switch among open apps?

[Rick]

I've been relying on Alt-Tab to switch among open
applications since Windows 3.1. Now that I sometimes
have 10 or 12 apps open at any given time, I'm finding
that the muscles of my hand often get strained.

I really don't like the standard way that people switch
among apps: moving the mouse down to the taskbar and
clicking the icon of the app you want. Are there other
possibilities out there? Maybe there are utilities that
do this, or perhaps new hardware? Thanks for any
thoughts.

 

[Bob]

http://4sysops.com/archives/switcher-20-a-great-alt-tab-replacement-for-vista/

 

[Jon]

I've been relying on Alt-Tab to switch among open
applications since Windows 3.1. Now that I sometimes
have 10 or 12 apps open at any given time, I'm finding
that the muscles of my hand often get strained.

I really don't like the standard way that people switch
among apps: moving the mouse down to the taskbar and
clicking the icon of the app you want. Are there other
possibilities out there? Maybe there are utilities that
do this, or perhaps new hardware? Thanks for any
thoughts.

If you rule out keyboard sequences or clicking a mouse then there aren't
many options left.

I suppose Voice Recognition commands would be another option.

I've seen helmets where you can control things via brain waves, but I
suspect they're still a number of years off for general consumption....

 

[smlunatick]

I've been relying on Alt-Tab to switch among open
applications since Windows 3.1.  Now that I sometimes
have 10 or 12 apps open at any given time, I'm finding
that the muscles of my hand often get strained.

I really don't like the standard way that people switch
among apps: moving the mouse down to the taskbar and
clicking the icon of the app you want.  Are there other
possibilities out there?  Maybe there are utilities that
do this, or perhaps new hardware?  Thanks for any
thoughts.

I'm using VistaSwitcher http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html