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

[Tony Malykh]

I know that Alt-tab can cycle through all the apps. That is
inconvenient for me since I'd have to press it unknown amount of times
to switch to the app I need. I wish I could assign keyboard shortcuts
like windows+2 for IE and windows+3 for CMD.exe and so on. This way I
would have to press just a single key combination for any app. And
this way eventually muscle memory will start forming.

oh, and I use jaws with a braille reader, so looking for the right app
with alt-tab takes a long time for me.



On 4/13/17, Larry Wayland via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tony Malykh via
> nfbcs
> 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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