Alt-Tab not switching and no icons being displayed

[Guest]

Hi-
I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 and when I press Alt-Tab I do not get the
icons on the screen and no window changes focus. I can see the white
highlight changing window boxes on the taskbar but when I release it no
window changes and there is nothing in the main part of the screen. I also
uninstalled the PowerToys Alt-Tab replacement. I would really appreciate any
help anyone might have for this problem. Thanks!
-Dan

 

[Kelly]

Hi Dan,

Suggestions without knowing more...

It sounds like you have the XP PowerToys installed. If so, go to
Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs/Powertoys for XP/Change or Remove.
Uninstall the task switcher.

And/or Go to Start/Run and type in msconfig. Click the Startup tab and
uncheck startup item taskswitch. After restarting your computer, Windows
reverts back to the classic task switcher.

To activate manually: Modify these registry values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

"CoolSwitch"
"CoolSwitchColumns"
"CoolSwitchRows"

....to reflect how many columns and rows, respectively, you want to appear in
the Alt+Tab cool switch display. That might help.

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[Dan]

Thanks for your help but I don't have the Alt-Tab replacement installed
anymore. I had it installed but it wasn't working even with that so I
uninstalled it. I don't see a PowerToys entry either on my Add/Remove
Programs list. Is there anything else I could try? Thank you again, I
really appreciate it.
-Dan

 

[Dan]

I figured it out. My laptop had a keyboard mapping utility that had
assigned the alt key as the windows key instead. It is working now.