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WHen I do an alt-tab in Windows 7, if I don't constantly switch window (holding down alt and quickly clicking tab) it will go into Peek mode. Normally, I would expect the alt-tab window to stay on top when the Peek happens, but, instead my little alt-tab window disappears behind the windows being brought forward by the Peek. I can still cycle through the windows by pushing alt-tab, but my window has disappeared. When I tried this on someone else's Windows 7 box, it didn't do this.
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Go to Control Panel -> Advanced (or Advanced System Settings) -> in the section Performance click on "Settings..." button -> in the custom list of Visual Effects uncheck "Enable Aero Peek" -> click "Apply" button
Now the alt-tab window will stay afloat as long as you want.
I recently starting having this problem.
In my case, I've narrowed it down to the Windows Gadgets (i.e. sidebar.exe). Once I closed all my gadgets, the problem went away; alternatively, when I killed sidebar.exe, the problem went away.
Hi,
Welcome to Microsoft answers.
Which version of Windows7 are you running ?
I suggest you to update your display drivers, goto manufacturers website and download the latest drivers and install.
Also check use aeropeak to preview desktop, follow these steps:
Let us know if you have any issues.
Thanks and Regards,
Azam - Microsoft Support.
OK. I think I have the answer...I logged on to my computer with a different account and did not see the same Alt-tab problems I had before. Assuming this was a profile issue, I logged in as an admin and deleted my profile (My Computer|Properties|Advanced System Settings|User Profiles|Settings). I logged back in and don't have the alt-tab problem anymore. You will end up losing a lot of your settings and don't forget to back up your desktop and Favorites, but, it works.
I would like to hear if this fixes the problem for anyone else.
For others who (very reasonably) go straight to the end of this wall of replies I'm reposting a link to my article from last year
Thanks!
I was talking to a colleague in work this morning and some of what's in your article, especially the bits about Microsoft dragging their feet on certain fixes, and how turning useful things off when they start acting strangely isn't really a solution, could have come straight from our conversation.
I'm currently in the position you were, in that I don't need the Keyboard & Mouse Centre aka Intellitype / Intellipoint to be running so I've simply uninstalled it. But I will bookmark your site should I ever come across an essential program that also causes this issue.
What amazes me is that I've been using Windows 7 since the earliest beta in combination with countless other programs, on various 32- and 64-bit machines, with and without Intellipoint or its descendants, and this is the first time I've come across this bug. I can only assume, as you point out, that one of the more recent IE updates had pushed it to the fore ready for the ipoint.exe from Windows Update to trigger it earlier this week.
All part of the joy of being a Windows user I guess.
