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

[Amanda Lacy]

He says he uses Braille. I don't think it's possible to have multiple
Braille terminals showing different programs.

On 4/17/17, Dr. Denise M Robinson via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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