The window environment maintains a Z-order list of top-level windows (tasks) with the most recently used tasks at the front and the desktop at the bottom, so the most recently used tasks can be switched to the most quickly. Thus, it can be used alternate between the two most recent tasks or is to alternate between a full-size window and the desktop.
This shortcut switches between application-level windows without using the mouse hence it was named Task Switcher ( Flip in Windows Vista).Īlt+ Tab ↹ can be used to switch to any running program that has an application-level window. JSTOR ( May 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īlt+ Tab ↹ is the common name for a keyboard shortcut that has been in Microsoft Windows since Windows 2.0 (1987).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
