[nfbcs] Reliable keyboard shortcut in Windows 10 to switch between applications

[Larry Wayland]

If you continue to hold the alt key down and press the tab key it will cycle
through all the open aps. Just don't release the alt between tab presses.



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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tony Malykh via
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Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 8:51 PM
To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
Cc: Tony Malykh
Subject: [nfbcs] Reliable keyboard shortcut in Windows 10 to switch between
applications

Hi all,

I am typically running several application: IE, CMD, Cygwin and Visual
Studio. I am looking for a keyboard shortcut to switch to a particular
application.

 Alt-tab is NOT what I'm looking for, since it switches to the last  used
application. I would like to have one shourtcut for IE, another  for MCD and
so on, so that whenever I want to switch to IE I would  press that shourtcut
just once.

 Windows key + numbers. This is what I'm currently using. For example I
have Windows key + 2 switches me to IE. The problem with it is that it  is
frustratingly unreliable. They only work about 80% of the times,  and for
the remaining 20% they set the focus to the task bar.
 Sometimes the success rate goes down even lower than 50%, at which  point I
have to reboot my computer. I've had this problem on two computers, one of
which had a brand new windows. By the way, does anyone else experience the
unreliability of this shortcut, or only me?

 Ctrl+Alt+Letter is NOT what I'm looking for. You can assign this type  of
shortcuts in the properties of applications on the desktop. But  that would
start a new application instead of switching to an existing  one.

 So:
 1. Is there a way to make windows key + number keyboard shortcut more
reliable?
 Or:
 2. Is there a way to assign keyboard shortcuts to specific apps?
Maybe a jaws script or something?

 I'm using the latest Windows 10 and Jaws 17.


Thanks
Tony
 Thanks

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