{"id":21793,"date":"2008-07-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/07\/01\/windows-vista-changed-the-alttab-order-slightly\/"},"modified":"2008-07-01T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T10:00:00","slug":"windows-vista-changed-the-alttab-order-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080701-00\/?p=21793","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista changed the Alt+Tab order slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2003\/10\/20\/55367.aspx\"> the Alt+Tab order was the same as the Z-order<\/a>, but that changes in Windows Vista if you use the enhanced Alt+Tab feature known as <i>Flip<\/i>, which is on by default on most systems. There are three types of interactive task switching in Windows Vista:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Classic Alt+Tab: This is the same one that&#8217;s been around since     Windows&nbsp;95.  It shows a grid of icons. <\/li>\n<li>Flip (new for Windows Vista):     This shows a grid of thumbnails. <\/li>\n<li>Flip3D (also new for Windows Vista):     This shows a stack of windows in 3D. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Classic Alt+Tab continues to show the icons in Z-order order, but the developer who wrote Flip told me that Flip changed it up a bit based on feedback from the design team. The first several icons are still shown in Z-order order, but if you have a lot of windows open, the rest of them are shown in alphabetical order to make it easier to pick the one you want from the list. <\/p>\n<p> I think it&#8217;s a good sign that nobody seems to have noticed. A lot of user interface work tries to be invisible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the Alt+Tab order was the same as the Z-order, but that changes in Windows Vista if you use the enhanced Alt+Tab feature known as Flip, which is on by default on most systems. There are three types of interactive task switching in Windows Vista: Classic Alt+Tab: This is the same one that&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-21793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>For decades, the Alt+Tab order was the same as the Z-order, but that changes in Windows Vista if you use the enhanced Alt+Tab feature known as Flip, which is on by default on most systems. There are three types of interactive task switching in Windows Vista: Classic Alt+Tab: This is the same one that&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}