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New PowerToy: Alt + Tab menu customisations #3913

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thatmaxplayle opened this issue May 30, 2020 · 2 comments
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New PowerToy: Alt + Tab menu customisations #3913

thatmaxplayle opened this issue May 30, 2020 · 2 comments
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Idea-New PowerToy Suggestion for a PowerToy Product-Tweak UI Design Refers to the idea of a UI Design tweaker Product-Virtual Desktop Refers to the idea of an Improved Virtual Desktop power toys

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Summary of the new feature/enhancement

New Power Toy: Ability to control the size of the Alt+Tab menu and disable previews
It would be helpful if we could control the size of the Alt+Tab menu (having it not correspond with the screen resolution) and disable the previews as a method of saving space, much like how it was done on Windows 7 when Classic Windows Shell was enabled, instead of Win 7 Basic or Win 7 Aero Glass.

This would impact the user in a positive way because it would allow for the user to have a cleaner representation of their open applications, when using the Alt + Tab menu.

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User to have a configuration menu allowing them to make the following changes to the Alt + Tab menu:

  • Ability to remove previews from each window, and see just a list of open Applications.
  • Group applications by their application name
  • Ability to rearrange the applications in the Alt+Tab menu.
@crutkas crutkas added the Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams label Jun 19, 2020
@crutkas crutkas added Product-Tweak UI Design Refers to the idea of a UI Design tweaker and removed Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams labels Jul 28, 2020
@crutkas crutkas added this to the Suggested Ideas milestone Jul 28, 2020
@crutkas crutkas added the Idea-New PowerToy Suggestion for a PowerToy label Jul 28, 2020
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crutkas commented Jul 28, 2020

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AltTabSettings

dword-32 , set to 1 to disable

@Jay-o-Way Jay-o-Way added the Product-Virtual Desktop Refers to the idea of an Improved Virtual Desktop power toys label Jan 7, 2023
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@crutkas This does the thing with app previews, but the overall user experience is not so good. For example, you can't use arrow keys during alt-tab switching, which is crucial for usability. Also, win95 style theming does not fit well with modern UX design.

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