How to Fix Alt Tab Not Working on Windows 11 or 10

On your windows 11 or 10 computer when you are trying to use alt tab keyboard combination and to navigate from open windows on windows 11 or 10 computer and alt tab is not working on windows 11 or 10 then you can easily fix this issue. So, lets see in detail.

Alt tab is most often used keyboard shortcut which opens and lets you view the open windows and jump from one open windows to other open window and very useful shortcut on windows 11 or 10 computer.

Fix Alt Tab Not Working on Windows 11

Below windows 11 troubleshooting methods will help you fix alt tab nor working on windows 11 and get your alt tab working again on your windows computer.

File Explorer

Step 1: Right click on Start Button and click on Task Manager.

Step 2: Find windows explorer in task manager.

Step 3: Select Windows explorer and click on restart button on bottom of task manager.

That’s it, once you end file explorer on windows 11 computer then wait for windows explorer to relaunch and then go ahead and use alt tab keyboard shortcut and your issue of alt tab not working on windows 11 or 10 computer will be resolved and alt tab will work properly now.

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Registry Editor (Regedit)

Step 1: Click on windows search and type in regedit

Step 2: Open Registry editor on windows computer

Step 3: Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER and then expand control panel

Step 4: Click on Desktop Folder -> on right side windows double click on ForegroundLockTimeout and open it.

Step 5: Change value data to 0 and click ok and apply and close registry editor and restart your windows 11 computer.

That’s it, once you make changes to foregroundlocktimeout and change its value data to 0 then restart your computer and your alt tab not working on windows 11 will be fixed successfully.

Change Advanced System Settings

Step 1: Click on windows search and type in sysdm.cpl and open it.

Step 2: Click on Advanced tab

Step 3: Under Performance -> Click on Settings

Step 4: Check Enable Peek and click on ok and apply changes on windows 11 computer.

Step 5: Now, go ahead and restart your windows 11 computer.

That’s it, once you change these settings and enable peek option in system properties then your issue of alt tab not working will be resolved successfully.

Why is My Alt and Tab not working?

If your windows settings are set incorrectly or and you need to restart file explorer and change registry editor settings and value data to fix alt tab not working on windows 11 computer.

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