what buttons do i press?

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jmagbita · #1 Post by **jmagbita** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:13 pm

my friend also has a thinkpad.. recently i noticed he pressed a couple buttons and it brought up this little pop up window with all of the current programs he was running.. they had little icons of microsoft powerpoint, a company program we use, and a couple other icons..

from there he was able to scroll and quickly swith in between programs..

anyone know what to press?

thanks!!

CChoi83 · #2 Post by **CChoi83** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:15 pm

I have no idea... on what you're talking about and what the buttons on it. Maybe it's not an IBM program. Maybe it's third-party software or something. Anyone?

The Weissman · #3 Post by **The Weissman** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:18 pm

Sounds like the Tweak XP Task Switcher, one of the Power Toys, and the keys he was hitting were Alt + Tab.

jmagbita · #4 Post by **jmagbita** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:19 pm

it's not another program

it's a way of bringing up all the programs you are running and switching between them.. he told me the combo of buttons to press but i forgot it.. something like "ctrl" and somethign else..

it's like pressing ctrl, alt, delete and bringin up your windows task manager, but instead of a list of programs, it shows the icons and you can switch between them

JHEM · #5 Post by **JHEM** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:20 pm

Alt+Tab!

Regards,

James

jmagbita · #6 Post by **jmagbita** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:21 pm

can you explain what you mean about tweak xp blah blah blah, power toys? i don't understand what you mean? and i'll try to press those buttons and see what happens! thanks in advance if it works!

The Weissman · #7 Post by **The Weissman** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:31 pm

Ordinarily, the task switcher only displays a list of programs. But the Power Toy task switcher (it's free at microsoft.com, and it comes with the Plus Pack), displays each program as a thumbnail instead.

The keystroke to display the task switcher, Alt + Tab, remains the same.

There are several Power Toys that make Windows XP better . . . or at least, more interesting . . .

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/down ... rtoys.mspx

edelrc · #8 Post by **edelrc** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:45 pm

Download it here http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... ySetup.exe (534 KB) and install it.
Use Alt+Tab to run it. We are sure that is what you are looking for...

edelrc · #9 Post by **edelrc** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:47 pm

oh... Weissman replied about the link already... we are fast!

jmagbita · #10 Post by **jmagbita** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:12 pm

you guys are fast!!! this is such a great forum!!

thanks so much all!! greatly appreciated!

Steve007 · #11 Post by **Steve007** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:30 am

jmagbita wrote:you guys are fast!!!

Maybe you'll get up to speed sooner rather than later, hehe

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