Window switcher vista not working

It is very difficult to recognize the selected app being switched to. I hope there is a way to fix this by emphasizing it more. What I just did now was go to right click the desktop, select "Personalize", "Colors" and set the default app mode to "Dark" and I think it improved it by making the box around the switch to app, white. I already had the other modes as "Dark". I'll see how this goes. There are various regedit hacks , but would be nice to have its look customizable in eg.

Or just improve a11y without redundant configs. This is the first time I've been motivated to register for an account here, just to add my voice to this chorus. I have normal vision, and I use alt-tab ALL the time, and as a result my work speed has slowed to a fraction of what it was. Every time I want to change windows, I have to squint, and half the time end up pulling up the wrong one anyway In a time when accessibility seems to be the emphasis of nearly all UI development, it's a bit shocking that such a backward decision was made.

Microsoft, please correct this! I couldn't agree more. I'm not visually impaired, but have found the new alt-tab switcher which I use regularly - I'm so old school like that to be very unfriendly. It isn't at all clear which window you're about to tab to without paying a LOT of attention. It takes what? Also nobody is reading users feedbacks here, needs something louder. Or if someone has a friend from MS - to add a ticket to corporate tracker.

Still unlikely it will be fixed any time soon. Agree, that's ridiculous - when one person is in charge of software, things like that are done fast; when thousands - things are rarely done. It's very hard now to see what app is selected. Please MS, fix this. It was fine before. Sunday, December 30, PM. Saturday, January 26, AM. Thanks alot budy, the 3d features disapeared from my VISTA too but your feedback was very helpful , thanks again.

Friday, September 19, AM. Monday, September 22, PM. Wednesday, September 24, PM. Monday, December 1, PM. I had the same problem as Susie. Thanks to you my 3D switcher works normally again. I was successful at running the MS Fixit program. The program indicates it found 12 updates to install. I have no issues with dowloading data from any other source, just Windows Update. What you you recommend as next steps to try to fix this issue?

Thank you. Ok so here is the solution step by step. I had difficult times in installing the Microsoft Vista Windows Update that was released few days ago. After the recent updates three always failed code error to install when ever Windows Automatic Update runs.

And then windows update will display annoying alerts in System tray all the time ready to install and then the same thing all over again,the sytem will failed to update. Just type the update code that you are having problems with in the search tab above in the page, for example KB click on the search all download center and then when the update is found Validate your Windows Vista operating system and download the installable manually you can either run it or save to install it at a later time but i recommend to install it right away by choosing run then accept the Microsoft license agreements and wait for the installation to be complete.

Enjoy your weekend :. Thank you for the suggestion but unfortumately it is not working for my issue. I've downloaded all of the recommended updates and have tried to install several.

Each time I run an update, I receive an installation box with the messages " Initializing Installation.. I've waiting 30 minutes for a single install to complete, but the progress bar shows no progress.

I've rebooted the pc each time. This issue and batch of updates has really hosed my pc. I can't print, and my pc now takes several minutes to shutdown, where it used to take seconds. I'm looking for a solution to completely reset Windows Update.

Then Windows 11 default window switcher was back. Then I switched to Windows 11 mode and restarted Explorer, this time it was Windows 11 default window switcher. I ran WinDbg x64 on the ThinkPad to analyze the dump file generated when Explorer crashed not everytime. Here is what I've got:.

Well, idk, it could be anything. I don't have any idea. Not much has changed between those 2 versions. Try to selectively compile the added stuff and maybe you figure out what's the culprit. Yeah, idk, the exception stack doesn't ring any bell to me, unfortunately. I compiled Then I compiled I will try to isolate the code which causes the problems. The commit after a1db brought huge changes. Yeah, I rearchitected a lot in that commit, the program performs much better now when it works from a huge number of perspectives.

It was needed. But yeah, it may have introduced some quirk, but I am sure it can be identified and we will correct it. After some necessary modifications to pass the compilation, everything works fine. I also tried to roll back to EP's 1e4a11b with latest sws, this caused problems in my laptop. Try to narrow it down more, comment some stuff out and see maybe you isolate the problem more.

Since the WorkerW window is always a child of the desktop window, I tried to change the code to:. That's great. I knew that type of loop might be dangerous, but I did not have a better solution at that moment.

That method is not getting any ordinary WorkerW. It sends a message to Progman that should create the window of the wallpaper, if not available.

I need that in order to get the wallpaper from and display it in the window switcher, at least if "Include desktop" options is ticked. Although, yeah, I marginally heard about this in the past as well, it seems to cause issues for some people.

For me, it always works, so I assumed it should work. I will think of another solution, or a fallback at least, that should be implemented. Thanks for taking the time to investigate this, I will follow up with some solution in the upstream as well.

Can you post a screenshot of the window switcher where the desktop entry is shown or confirm that it is properly shown a rectangle of the desktop background when the "Include desktop" option is ticked? That would be the test for this case. Personally I never used the 'Include desktop' feature. I just found the desktop thumbnail picture is wrong, both the original code and GetDesktopWindow workaround generate the same picture. Yeah, well, that code is supposed to get the HWND of the wallpaper window.

As I said, I have to take a look at it and find a solution. Thanks for testing it out, I will definitely take a look at it at the earliest opportunity. Can you try with the latest commit? Check again for pre-release updates, it should find a version based on the current upstream. It sends a message of 0x52c to enforce a WorkerW window be created, actually this is not enough. Now I revert to sws c36c3be before the 2 commits about fix with the function above, EP works fine. Your two fixes for caused infinite loop in dwm.

Okay, which one? I want to see it myself. The initial function floats around StackOverflow for a couple of years. Any idea what those messages do each of themselves? Not that it matters that much, what matters is it works, just curious.

Also, do you have a black desktop wallpaper, so the thumbnail above is correct?