{"id":243189,"date":"2026-08-26T01:16:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/microsoft-powertoys-adds-alttab-style-switching-for-an-apps-windows"},"modified":"2026-08-26T01:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:16:47","slug":"microsoft-powertoys-adds-alttab-style-switching-for-an-apps-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/microsoft-powertoys-adds-alttab-style-switching-for-an-apps-windows","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft PowerToys adds Alt+Tab-style switching for an app\u2019s windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-powertoys-adds-alttab-style-switching-for-an-apps-windows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft updated its Windows PowerToys toolset with a new utility dubbed \u201cWindow Hopper\u201d that lets users switch between an app\u2019s windows more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The Window Hopper added in this release works like the standard ALT + TAB Windows feature, but it only works for the currently focused app, helping users switch back and forth between its windows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the utility is enabled, press the configurable Alt + backtick shortcut to cycle through that app\u2019s windows without stepping through everything else on your desktop,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/powertoys-0-101-is-here-window-hopper-insider-updates-and-command-palette-compact-mode\/#%F0%9F%AA%9F-meet-window-hopper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft explains<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft updated its Windows PowerToys toolset with a new utility dubbed \u201cWindow Hopper\u201d that lets users switch between an app\u2019s windows more quickly. The Window Hopper added in this release works like the standard ALT + TAB Windows feature, but it only works for the currently focused app, helping users switch back and forth between [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}