Vista's alt-tab behaviour: can the ordering be reverted to XP's order?
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Mar 15, 2026765 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Under XP (and earlier) the windows list in the alt-tab display was fairly simple (ignoring small complications caused by always-on-top windows and some items that didn't appear at all): the windows were ordered by Z-order, which essentially meant most recent first and explicitly minimised windows a…
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Fix for: Vista's alt-tab behaviour: can the ordering be reverted to XP's order?
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Use regedit to go to . Create a DWORD called "AltTabSettings" and set it to 1. This will get you back your beloved classic (and super zippy) Windows XP Alt-Tab.
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