Not sure if it can be done.

Hi.

What I'm looking to do might be a bit weird.

It;s a re-allocation of the letter Q.

I want to press Ctrl-Q and have Win 10 cycle through the programs open at the bottom of the screen.

I know you can do this using Windows-TAB but it just doesn't feel right to me.

It's a bit awkward for my fingers.

I know there are some kinds of programs that re-assign keys, does anyone know of one that can do this?

I downloaded one but it didn't have total functionality.

Thanks for your time in advance, all the best, ste.

Thanks so much for getting back.

I've gone with Autohotkey and have ran through the instructions until I feel I'm following you.

I've created a script and edited it using #tab::^q (which I think is bang on) then gone into the system tray and reloaded the script. I've right clicked on the script and ran it, compiled it and edited it again but am having no joy.

I feel I'm so close. Can you think of something I am not doing?

The code looks logical and straightforward but I am no Neo.

Cheers if you can help, ste. )

Have you tried these commands in ahk scripts:


In order To Map "Left Control + Q" to "Alt + Tab" use the following 2 commands:


LCtrl & Q::AltTab
return



OR If you really want to Map "Left Control + Q" to "Left Window + Tab" use the following 6 commands:



LCtrl & Q::
Send, {LWin down}
Send, {Tab down}
Send, {Tab up}
Send, {LWin up}
return



(First script works for me on Win10)
(Haven't tried the second script yet on Win 10; but works on Win XP at the moment)

Hi all.

thanks for your help.

It is so interesting to me these kind of things.

I only had a chromebook so this is more customizable by a long way.

The script das10 brought up the timeline feature which helped me closer.

It helped me to figure out I want to rotate through open windows.

I am now using:

LCtrl & Q::
Send, {Alt down}
Send, {Tab down}
Send, {Tab up}
Send, {Alt up}
return

This flicks between my current window and the last one used, back and forth.

This is really helpful in my assignment writing, the only other thing I am trying to do is to have it roll through all open windows at the bottom of my win 10 instead, like Ctrl-TAB does with tabs in chrome.

Flicking back and forth between the last two used windows is great.

But it there a way to tell it to keep going across all open windows??

I feel it might just need 1 more line?

If anyone can help out I'd be really grateful.

Cheers again, ste.

Using autohotkey to roll through taskbar programs in sequence has so far proved to be quite difficult ( it used to be easier in Win XP ) for eg see:

https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/9...b-replacement/
windows 7 - Disable MRU in Alt+Tab task switch - Super User

The only other alternative seems to be use something like 7-taskbar-tweaker ( as suggested in the superuser thread above ), and its advanced 'Keyboard Shortcuts Options' to use shortcut keys to roll forwards and backwards through the taskbar programs.

7+ Taskbar Tweaker - RaMMicHaeLs Blog

I haven't tried it myself (as I much prefer to go through Alt+Tab to reac h a specific window) but you may find it useful.

For example:
From the 7-taskbar-tweaker help file eg; in the advanced keyboard shortcuts option, if you use something like

0x81|ctrl - 102

you could use Ctrl + Q to sequentially go forwards on the taskbar programs (or if you want to use the mouse wheel, the option is in the GUI itself)

You can get the Keyboard codes from the link below to find the keycode you want to assign to your shortcuts in the 7-taskbar tweaker

Keycode constants | Microsoft Docs

You've all been so helpful.

I am happy with the Ctrl-Q I've got set up now, it works with my essays.

May come back later and have another go at it with whtkkey at a later date.

Thanks for everybody's help!

You guys are the best.

Ste :O)