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K-MailMom
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Dec 22, 2021
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Alt+Tab Issue - Alt stays active

I've recently updated to Windows 11. Since that time, everytime I use Alt+Tab to switch between any window and an Office 365 application (e.g. Excel, Word, Excel), it seems like the Alt key stays act...
  • Aikurna's avatar
    Jan 16, 2022
    Hello Keanu. I have the same problems and many other users also. There's another post, where this issue is reported: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/report-an-issue/windows-11-alt-tab-is-broken-on-fullscreen-windows/m-p/2854895

    Since this morning Microsoft knows about it for sure, because I chatted with the MS Support for almost 1.5 hours. A case number was generated and now Microsoft is clear that it is a bug in the operating system. The engineers will work on it. Ninozer has suggested the following interim solution: the "old" Alt + Tab function from Windows 10 can be activated. The following steps are necessary for this:

    Open the Registry Editor and select the file path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

    Then right-click the Explorer folder, select "New" and click DWORD value (32-bit). A value will be created in the explorer folder. Set the name of the value from "AltTabSettings". After the DWORD value (32-bit) is created, double-click on it. Now change the value from 0 to 1. After that select OK.

    Then restart the computer. Maybe the function for automatic updates needs to be disabled.

    Here with me I have now again the old Alt + Tab function. It runs great. I hope that MS can soon fix the bug in Win 11.

    Many greetings from Germany.

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