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Re: What does the Alt-Tab display look like in win11?

From	Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: What does the Alt-Tab display look like in win11?
Date	2025-04-20 05:49 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sat, 4/19/2025 7:09 PM, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:58:48 -0400, micky
> <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> 
>> In Win10 my alt-tab display is an array of large** thumbnails, with easy
>> to read title text and an easy to see icon in the top row of each
>> thumbnail, on a big black rectangle for background. 
>>
>> **(As many as 3 rows with as many as 5 thumbnails in a row, big enough
>> to fill almost the whole screen.) 
>>
>> In Win11, it's much harder to see.   The icons are smaller, the text is
>> smaller, and the background is white instead of black, somewhat
>> translucent with the colors of the page showing through.   Is this what
>> it normally looks like in win11? 
> 
> Here are images of what it now looks like: 
> https://www.google.com/imgres?q=alt-tab%20win11&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwinaero.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F01%2FDefault-Alt-tab-in-Windows-11.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwinaero.com%2Fenable-classic-alttab-dialog-in-windows-11%2F&docid=L2funGXqCeSs9M&tbnid=1QoHuiHzLpjc2M&vet=12ahUKEwjepbDjmeWMAxW6v4kEHV8GOfMQM3oECBwQAA..i&w=850&h=478&hcb=2&ved=2ahUKEwjepbDjmeWMAxW6v4kEHV8GOfMQM3oECBwQA
> and 
> https://www.google.com/imgres?q=alt-tab%20win11&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwinaero.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F01%2FWindows-11-shows-Edge-Tabs-in-Alt-Tab-by-default.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwinaero.com%2Fhow-to-disable-microsoft-edge-tabs-in-alttab-on-windows-11%2F&docid=WDEmHoU1mq5gtM&tbnid=6gsEtK7sig7LXM&vet=12ahUKEwjepbDjmeWMAxW6v4kEHV8GOfMQM3oECHQQAA..i&w=850&h=446&hcb=2&ved=2ahUKEwjepbDjmeWMAxW6v4kEHV8GOfMQM3oECHQQAA
>   In the second case you can ignore the writing in red.  It's about MS
> Edge and I rarely use MS Edge.  I only post this link so you can see
> what the whole page looks like. 
> 
> Do your alt-tab pages look like the two links above? 
> 
> Or do they a) have bigger icons maybe, or b) a solid black background? 
> 
> In other words, does it look more like the win10 version I described?   
> 
> If so, I'll continue trying to figure out how I messed it up.  
> 

I had something that looked different on the other machine.
Why are the machines on this side of the room, so consistent ?

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/PJS4BYw8/W11-W10-alt-tab.gif

I am unlikely to have changed an alt-tab setting.

OK, another possibility, is the appearance is also a function
of screen size. The machine across the way has a 1920x1080 LCD.
I took two more pictures there, and they're the same
as the above picture.

    Paul

Thread

What does the Alt-Tab display look like in win11? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-19 17:58 -0400
  Re: What does the Alt-Tab display look like in win11? Mickey Mouse 2nd <mickey.mouse.2nd@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-19 22:56 +0000
    Re: What does the Alt-Tab display look like in win11? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-19 19:12 -0400
  Re: What does the Alt-Tab display look like in win11? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-19 19:09 -0400
    Re: What does the Alt-Tab display look like in win11? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-20 05:49 -0400
      Re: What does the Alt-Tab display look like in win11? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-20 12:38 -0400
        Re: What does the Alt-Tab display look like in win11? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-21 14:50 +0000

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