I notice, on Windows 7, that Alt + Tab works differently if you are using one monitor than if you are using two.
With just one monitor it puts up a list and lets you cycle through the list. But with two monitors it only waits about one second with the list then brings the window up and hence cycling through the list is painful because every window keeps coming up.
Is there a way to make both single or dual monitor put up the full list and not open the window?
Works here as expected if I keep the ALT key down ... it leaves the list up. I can then tab again until the window I want is selected.
If you are concerned about seeing the full version of every window as you cycle through the AltTab list, there is a registry hack you can do to make it at least delay before doing that. The full question/answer can be seen here, but the important part is this:
Open Registry Editor and create the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AltTab.In that key, create the following DWORD value: LivePreview_ms and set it to the delay (in milliseconds) of the first live preview.
Restart Explorer to see the changes.
I don't think you can delay it permanently by setting a super high number, but it will give at least a decent amount of time for you to tab around before it starts popping windows all over the place.
