Dylan Greene dot com

Funny... I'm trying to remember how I ever learned to do that. Alt-tab has been in the last few generations of windows. I suspect it was word of mouth.

But I can certainly tell you WHY I know it - it's the "boss-key" for when you hear footsteps approaching your cube and you're, oh, maybe reading some dude's weblog.

Alt-tab, shazaam! Excel spreadsheets as far as the eye can see.

Here are some other shortcuts that I found usefull.

http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/tips/windows-key.htm

I still can't find the "any key"

Hey, I don't know that this is really "hidden". Go into windows help, type "keyboard shotcuts" in the search box, and voila, am emtire host of snazzy things you can do to amaze your friends without touching your mouse.

My memory goes all the back to Windows 2.0, and this task switching using Alt-Tab has always been in Windows since those early days. You can likely do it on the Mac (although I have never used a MAC) since Microsoft ripped off the interface from Apple.

Some other neat tricks include:

WINDOWS-E to open up Windows Explorer

WINDOWS-R to open the CMD line

CTRL-G to make that annoying Apple IIe Beep sound

One of the bad parts of the Mouse is that keystroke shortcuts get forgotten. It's like my grandparents speaking yiddish -- there is a word for everything and I wish I knew more about it.

On my first job out of college, I learned a handful of shortcuts from a real nerd's Nerd. I have grown to appreciate his wisdom and am constantly irritated by my peers who insist on physically hitting the "OK" box with their mouse instead of typing "Enter"; or who must minimize everything to switch applications.

I usually offer to drive to keep things moving along. The curious ones ask what I am doing -- the lazy ones don't seem to care.

If you go to the microsoft website you can download the "ALT-TAB replacement power toy". It upgrades your alt-tab on windows XP to use a cool graphical preview of the window instead of just the icon of the program. It'll probably give you an experience about half way between the old alt-tab and the new one coming in longhorn 3D

My personal favorite keyboard shortcut is Win-L. This locks your PC. I am so used to doing it when I stand up that I am starting to do it at home by mistake.

I think I use all the keyboard shortcuts. The life would be too difficult without them!!! ha ha ha

http://www.hdtv-info.org

I found something better than Microsoft power toy -- http://www.ironbytes.com/altswitch/

It supports skins!

I think even the Windows 1.0 shell for MS-DOS included Alt-Tab already. Not that was that useful since you only had about a lame card-like "database", notepad (the same "textbox in a window" it still is! ;-)) and an analog clock that you could start tens of times to see how it would slow down your NEC V20 + Hercules + dual floppy drive PC just because of the clock face refreshes. ;-)

Does anyone know how to uninstall the Alt Tab PowerToy? I tried using Add/Remove Programs to remove it, but the program still shows up when I use Alt+Tab. =(

you can do this in Mac. Just press the "apple" key (same as alt on pc's) and "tab." I don't use it much tho, 'cause I find the dock much more easier. And, it wouldn't suprise me if windows ripped it from Mac. The new windows longhorn sounds an awful lot like Mac OS X with it's graphics capabilities. Poor Microsoft, always a step behind Apple.

Yeah, love that PC vs. MAC talk.

They're both fine ( except the vunerability towards virusses, but you know, when you're popular and wide spread - not like APPLE - you get attacked a lot more ).

Can't wait to get my hands on VISTA !! Yeauh

Aff pena k trava, se ele travou pq a microsoft anunciou? só para se quimar na midia?

Just to settle this talk about Mac vs PC, Apple was the one who "stole" the Alt+Tab feature from Microsoft. OS 8 didn't have the Alt+Tab feature, but OS 9, oddly enough, did in fact support the Apple(alt)+Tab.
OS X expanded on the Alt+Tab idea, not to mention practically having the code writen for them when they stole unix/linux code.
If you ask me, Apple is stealing from the PC world. First they steal Alt+Tab, then they "Invent" the two button mouse (20 years late), then they switch to Unix/Linux, now they're shipping Intel based Macs, and they released bootcamp so that you can run WinXP?
What happened to the Mac pride. Think Different! The $2,000 Operating System with a free computer!
The only thing Mac's are now are overpriced PC's with an Apple Rom Chip.

Actually, Alt+Tab cycles through windows (always has), Alt+Esc toggles directly to the next window, making a much quicker change. 

Alt-Tab in Windows 3.1 was called  "Cool Switch"

most of the vista part was made in india, as reported by cnn exclusive report on 23rd Nov.
i am not sure about this thing. but windows 98 was completely made in banglore. that i am sure.

Don't Install Alt-Tab Power Toy! It sucks!  To uninstall it go to add-remove program, then uninstall Alt-Tab.  Then you have to remove the computer to remove it completely.