{"id":42498,"date":"2013-03-27T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T20:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=42498"},"modified":"2013-03-27T20:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T20:51:41","slug":"handy-alttab-alternative-for-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/handy-alttab-alternative-for-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Handy Alt+Tab Alternative for Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Tip submitted by Corleone007 on <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.pcpitstop.com\/index.php?\/topic\/199566-an-alttab-alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\">August 4th, 2012<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><h3>Handy Alt+Tab Alternative for Windows 7<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>You want to access one of the five Explorer windows you have open, but there are so many other programs running that Alt+Tab makes it hard to pick out what you need. 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And of course this works with any application that has multiple windows open. <\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=\"2\">Each month we select the best of the tips submitted by members of the PC Pitstop community through our <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.pcpitstop.com\/index.php?\/forum\/40-tips-n-tricks\/\" target=\"_blank\">forums.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out our past favorites, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/02\/6-years-of-the-best-pc-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/alttabalt-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"alttabalt\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-42533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alttabalt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/alttabalt-120x120.jpg 120w, 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