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I'm on Windows 11 and when I alt tab between two windows I have an undesirable behaviour which is the following: enter image description here

As you can see on top (this is after I changed between windows), you have the same behaviour as if i had pressed alt on its own. Which means if i wanna start typing it just randomly selects an option on top.

The same happens in Word, in outlook and in Chrome. The only annoying one is Word because for the others I just don't type straight after alt tabbing so it doesn't really matter that much.

I've searched and searched and searched for an answer but I seem to be the only one with this problem. Have I done something wrong? The laptop is pretty new, I don't think I have installed any weird stuff on it.

I have also tried this: Application Remembers that Alt Key Was Pressed after Alt+Tab Away but this doesn't work sadly

EDIT : I used another laptop for several months because it was annoying me and I just saw people answered. I restarted the other laptopt and it seems that Microsoft patched it because I don't have the problem anymore. If someone has the same problem, maybe just launch windows update since they have apparently patched it!

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    Not here on my own Windows 11 machines (Desktop and Laptop). " The laptop is pretty new, " ...... Try updating all drivers with the manufacturer's Driver Update App. Be sure to update Video and Chipset drivers.
    – anon
    Commented Jan 22, 2022 at 23:30
  • What happens when you use the on-screen keyboard to alt+tab? Do you happen to have sticky keys enabled? Normally if you just held alt, the window-switch ui stays open, so it sounds like something is sending an extra alt-press after you finish tabbing over.
    – Cpt.Whale
    Commented Jan 22, 2022 at 23:37
  • In Word, those are Ribbon ToolTips. Another press of Alt should clear them, or Esc. I refuse to use Windows 11 until they finish it for public release. I would suggest posting this in the Microsoft Community Windows 11 user-to-user support forum. answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_11 Also use Microsoft's feedback mechanism.
    – Charles Kenyon
    Commented Jan 23, 2022 at 16:48
  • It's been mentioned on Microsoft's tech community (techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-11/…), but it hasn't received any really useful answers. Reverting to "Windows 10" mode via registry is an ugly looking solution :-/
    – Gorgsenegger
    Commented May 12, 2022 at 19:36

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Similar issue discussed here

Method 1

Try turning off ALL apps that register global keyboard hotkeys.

In my case, turning off Powertoys and QuickLook solved the "Sticky Alt" issue.

Method 2

You can also try ExplorerPatch. After installing it, set the alt-tab switcher back to "Windows 10" mode.

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    Commented Feb 11, 2022 at 11:18
  • Turning off Powertoys resolved the problem for me. Thanks! I actually want to keep Powertoys active, so I tried disabling just the Keyboard Manager in Powertoys. That seemed to reduce the behaviour, but it still acts up every now and then. So, maybe I need to completely close Powertoys in the background to get this annoying bug out of the way.
    – Tripartio
    Commented Jul 8, 2022 at 14:35
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This just started happening to me after installing the application AltDrag and having it seeming to crash. So a "global hotkeys" issue as stated above by heruji. Just thought I'd add that this app could cause it for anyone troubleshooting.

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