Remove Desktop entry from Alt+Tab list
Not a fix, a replacement.
This might do it: http://insentient.net/
or: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/windows-7vistaxp-alt-tab-replacement/
Option A - without any software or registry hack
- Hold down the left alt key Press and release the right alt key
- keeping the left alt key held down Then, still keeping the left alt
- key held down, tab-tab-tab away
Option B - with a tool from lifehacker
System tweaking utility Alt+Tab Tuner
Option C - Registry Hack
Create a DWORD Value called AltTabSettings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer and set it to 1.
Gives the "old" XP styled Alt-Tab without desktop.
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Found also a tip, love it: Windows Key + Tab for an over-the-top graphic preview.
Is the reason you don't want Desktop in Alt+Tab, because of it interfering with cycling through windows you've minimized, and back?
IF SO: add these three commands to AutoHotKey, which allow you to still have Desktop entry in alt+tab, but with keyboard shortcuts, allows you to restore, in order, the windows that you minimize (in order):
#s::Send,{AltDown}{Esc}{AltUp}{LWinDown}
#a::
Send,{AltDown}{ShiftDown}{Esc}{ShiftUp}{AltUp}{LWinDown}
Sleep, 0
WinMaximize,A
return
#x::
WinMaximize,A
WinMinimize,A
return
Substitute the Win+S
, Win+A
and Win+X
input keys for whatever you like. Full info, see my thread on the "solution" here.