Alt-Tab and Taskbar Previews Disappear

Hey, all!

This may be a problem others have had, but I've looked everywhere and haven't been able to find a good answer, yet. I'm dealing with a few bugs.

The first bug relates to alt-tab. When I hold alt and press tab, the pop-up with previews of each active window appears as it should, however after about a half a second, it disappears. In that half a second, I can quickly alt-tab from the active window to the one directly behind it, and if I hold tab, it quickly cycles through all the others with the pop-up staying up, but the minute I let go of tab for the first time, the pop-up disappears and nothing happens.

I have a similar problem with my taskbar. The Aero theme includes the great feature of hovering the mouse over the icon for an open program to show a small preview of that window (or all the windows in a given application). When I do this, the preview pops up breifly, but then quickly disappears as well. If I move my mouse slowly across the icon, each time the mouse stops, the preview refreshes, but the preview disappears when I try to move my mouse over it to, for example, select one Word document out of 3 that I'm working on.

A related bug to this may be that when I try to click-drag to reorder the icons on my taskbar, the click-drag only "grabs" the icon for a half a second before releasing it (even though my mouse is still down) back to where it originally came from.

I'm running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on a refurbished Alienware M17X that I received from Dell a few weeks ago (in replacement of a dead Inspiron 1720... go figure how they made THAT decision!). Any help would be much appreciated. I will gladly try to take screenshots or record video if any of my explanations were unclear.

Thanks!

Go to Control Panel -> Advanced (or Advanced System Settings) -> in the section Performance click on "Settings..." button -> in the custom list of Visual Effects uncheck "Enable Aero Peek" -> click "Apply" button

Now the alt-tab window will stay afloat as long as you want.

If it's a laptop, try without the plug in.

I am actually having the EXACT same problem on my Alienware M17x Laptop running Windows 7 x64.

Same problem to on the same system (AW M17x) with Win7 Ultimate x64.

In case you find solution please update.

have you tried using mouseflip3d Helpful Tip: Vista Flip3D Mouse Shortcut

Pusspa said:

have you tried using mouseflip3d Helpful Tip: Vista Flip3D Mouse Shortcut

And how is this related to our problem?

ammouri said:

Pusspa said:

have you tried using mouseflip3d Helpful Tip: Vista Flip3D Mouse Shortcut

And how is this related to our problem?

well for one, i thought it might help with cycling through the apps, and two, nice attitude buddy. I wasnt telling you to use it, I was just offering a suggestion.