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Prerequisites:
- you have lots of windows open like I usually do - several files open, several folders, browser etc.,
and
- you only have your PC / Laptop screen or maybe an additional screen (I have 2 screens and I sometimes need 3 windows open at the same time to be efficient, so would need a 3rd screen but don't have it unfortunately)
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- you need to work with 2+ programs at the same time, be able to watch one file and write in another for example
Possible solutions:
1. Tiling windows.
If you don't mind having half-screen windows, I suggest you tile your windows vertically on 1 screen while you work on the other (or on the same screen if you just have 1)
2. Using a predefined Windows shortcut key.
The Win+Number shortcut. If you need to activate / restore an explorer window and this window is, let’s say, second from the left in the taskbar, you just press Win+2 and the window is activated and restored right above any other window.
Now, if you have, e.g. Outlook and then three explorer windows open, those three windows are considered a group and they all belong to the second place from the left at the taskbar. To select one of them and bring it to front, press and hold Win+2. This opens the taskbar thumbnails of all the windows of the explorer group. Pressing Win+2 again moves you to the next window / thumbnail. When you are at the window you need to activate, just release the Win+2 keys, and enjoy!
Of course you can use Alt+Tab or Win+Tab to have instant view of all open windows and select what to bring in front, but is there any other way, cleaner, even faster, sometimes more convenient?
You can activate one by one all open windows using also the Alt+Esc shortcut, but this can also be time consuming. Besides, if the window you try to bring in front is minimized, its taskbar icon will change color when it is focused, but the window won’t be activated, it stays minimized. In this case sometimes it is activated (restored) if you press Enter, but this usually won’t succeed, especially with explorer windows.
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3. Using an AutoHotkey script (for this you need 3rd party free software AutoHotkey)
Windows only: If you've ever wanted to assign a shortcut key directly to your favorite applications, you can do so easily with this simple AutoHotkey script.
The general idea of the function is that you can assign a specific hotkey to a specific window—when you press the shortcut key once, the window will come to the foreground, and if you press it again, the window will minimize. This way you can toggle between the windows you use most often, without having to bother with Alt-Tab.
To make your own AutoHotkey script for restoring a specific window, create a new *.ahk script and paste in the following code:
ToggleWinMinimize(TheWindowTitle)
{
SetTitleMatchMode,2
DetectHiddenWindows, Off
IfWinActive, %TheWindowTitle%
{
WinMinimize, %TheWindowTitle%
}
Else
{
IfWinExist, %TheWindowTitle%
{
WinGet, winid, ID, %TheWindowTitle%
DllCall("SwitchToThisWindow", "UInt", winid, "UInt", 1)
}
}
Return
}
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