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

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

Tony
I got it in switching programs fast---I hope anyway. One of my students
asked how I could go so fast from having a screen on him and typing my
notes on him and accessing my calculator all at the same time--it is
because I have 3 monitors and the programs are open all the time. I am
wondering if you connected another monitor to your computer that would make
your life easier in going from one program to another? It makes my life a
lot easier.

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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:50 PM, Tony Malykh via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> 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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