Windows 11 Alt-tab is a pain with multiple images open in Photoshop
- March 3, 2023
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Hi, Having just upgraded to Windows 11 from XP (don't laugh!), I'm finding it too difficult to use alt-tab to switch between open apps when I have lots of images open in Photoshop. Previously: let's say I'm in Photoshop. I had just been in notepad, and I want to pop back there. I click alt-tab, it takes 1/5 of a second, and there I am, back in notepad. In the window that pops up when you press alt-tab, there is *one* instance of Photoshop, *one* instance of each app that is open.
But now, the alt-tab popup shows an instance of Photoshop for *every* image that is currently open within Photoshop, so I can't just snap alt-tab and go back to notebook--rather, I have to click through all the Photoshops to get there, which takes so long as to make alt-tab useless for switching between aps. I've attached an image of what the alt-tab window looks like when Photoshop has many images open.
So the question: is there a setting, or a registry thingie, that I'm missing, that can make it so alt-tab takes me *just back and forth from Photoshop*, and doesn't consider every image its own destination?
Sure hope I explained that well enough!
/SD