ALT-TAB working differently in XP

[V S Rawat]

I was using 98 (c previously. I had set "activation
follows mouse" by tweakui. It was working pretty well.

If I have two ms word windows open, just by pressing ALT-TAB
I was able to go to the other window, and then back by
another press of that.
---

Now I have installed xp sp2 in e:

In this too, I have tweaked to select "activation follows
mouse", but that is not changing the windows.

If the same two ms word windows are open, and I press
alt-tab, it shows the tab bar, but as soon as I release
alt-tab, the focus is back to the window which has mouse
pointer (I guess.)

I want xp to respond to alt-tab and switch windows,
irrespective of wherever my mouse could be. How to?

It is office xp on both 98/xp.

TIA.

 

[Carl G]

Check to see if you have BIOS set to boot from CD rom first,before hard
drive.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

What do this help with the Alt-Tab feature?

Check to see if you have BIOS set to boot from CD rom first,before hard
drive.

 

[V S Rawat]

Check to see if you have BIOS set to boot from CD rom first,before hard
drive.

First boot: HDD-0 (I have only one HDD active)

Second boot: CDROM (I have now "disabled" that after I
noticed it when I went there on your message)

Third boot: disabled

It is continuing focus in the window that has mouse pointer.

What next?

TIA

 

[Quaoar]

I was using 98 (c previously. I had set "activation
follows mouse" by tweakui. It was working pretty well.

If I have two ms word windows open, just by pressing ALT-TAB
I was able to go to the other window, and then back by
another press of that.
---

Now I have installed xp sp2 in e:

In this too, I have tweaked to select "activation follows
mouse", but that is not changing the windows.

If the same two ms word windows are open, and I press
alt-tab, it shows the tab bar, but as soon as I release
alt-tab, the focus is back to the window which has mouse
pointer (I guess.)

I want xp to respond to alt-tab and switch windows,
irrespective of wherever my mouse could be. How to?

It is office xp on both 98/xp.

TIA.

In XP, do you see two task bar buttons, one for each window? Alt-tab
moves between instances of an application (more than one task bar button
with one window open per button, or multiple Word apps running), not
between windows within an application (one taskbar button but multiple
windows open in one running Word application).

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