Alt-Tab (or clicking a URL) results in add'l windows coming forward

[Guest Jerry T.]

I've searched Google and this NG and haven't seen my exact situation

described or resolved so I'll try asking for myself.

 

When I Alt-Tab to switch back to the last-used application, some other

application that I haven't used in a while will come forward, too (but not

always). Sometimes that 2nd application is one that was minimized. It's

like Alt-Tab is unclear that I just want the last application, or that the

ordering of applications in the list gets fubar'd.

 

I've also seen this behavior when I click a URL in, say, an Outlook email

message. I keep one IE7 window open for various tasks but rarely switch to

it so when I click a URL in an Outlook message, I get not only the new IE7

window but also the old IE7 window comes forward behind it. Then, if I want

to Alt-Tab, Outlook is not the application that I would be switched back to.

It's the old IE7 window. I have to hit Alt-Tab-Tab to get back to Outlook.

 

I'm all SP'd and patched and whatnot and running Windows XP Pro.

 

Surely I'm not the only person to whom this has occurred.

 

JT

[Guest Jerry T.]

Re: Alt-Tab (or clicking a URL) results in add'l windows coming forward

 

 

"Jerry T." <foad@esadspammer.com> wrote in message

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> I've searched Google and this NG and haven't seen my exact situation

> described or resolved so I'll try asking for myself.

>

> When I Alt-Tab to switch back to the last-used application, some other

> application that I haven't used in a while will come forward, too (but not

> always). Sometimes that 2nd application is one that was minimized. It's

> like Alt-Tab is unclear that I just want the last application, or that the

> ordering of applications in the list gets fubar'd.

>

> I've also seen this behavior when I click a URL in, say, an Outlook email

> message. I keep one IE7 window open for various tasks but rarely switch

> to it so when I click a URL in an Outlook message, I get not only the new

> IE7 window but also the old IE7 window comes forward behind it. Then, if

> I want to Alt-Tab, Outlook is not the application that I would be switched

> back to. It's the old IE7 window. I have to hit Alt-Tab-Tab to get back

> to Outlook.

>

> I'm all SP'd and patched and whatnot and running Windows XP Pro.

>

> Surely I'm not the only person to whom this has occurred.

>

> JT

>

 

No one? :-(