Alt-Tab task switcher is one of the common keyboard shortcuts(alt tab) on Microsoft Windows used for switching between top-level windows without using the mouse.Alt-Tab alt and tab shortcut is also called Task Switcher and as ‘Flip’ in Windows Vista.Alt-Tab can switch to any running program and the list of tasks is kept in an order with the most recently used tasks at the front.

The default windows Task Switcher appears as below.Alt-Tab-windows-Task-Switch

How do we make Alt-Tab Task Switcher visually more informative?

Microsoft provides a windows Alt-Tab Replacement PowerToy that can be used to replace the default Task Switcher.With this PowerToy,along with application window icon you are switching to, users  will also see a preview of the page.

This is really helpful if you have multiple sessions of same application are running.

  • You can download the Alt-Tab Replacement PowerToy from here.
  • Once you downloaded double click on the executable to install the Alt-Tab Replacement Task Switcher and will install the tool on your machine.

Now the Alt-Tab Task Switcher will be displayed as below.
Alt-Tab-windows-PowerToy-Task Switcher
The new Task Switcher will show you the details along with the preview of the application window on the  Alt-Tab  Task switcher itself.

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