I like researching new hotkeys, and I just saw the Windows Key + Tab hotkey. To me it seems like it is just a fancy looking alt-tab, that is less user friendly?

Am I missing something here, or is there something else this hotkey can do?

(Running Windows 7 Enterprise)

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Win+Tab was introduced in Vista. It's mostly just eye-candy, but order of windows may be different than with Alt+Tab if you have many windows open.

Win+Tab was then removed in Windows 8, and in Windows 10 completely different feature is bound to this shortcut. Pressing Win+Tab in Windows 10 shows all windows on every screen in a grid, letting you pick one with mouse. No need to hold Win while doing that.

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That is pretty much it to be honest, there are ways within windows for you to be able to change what the hot keys do. But the default is what you are experiencing.

Some people find they prefer the windows key + tab (I do prefer it to alt+tab)

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