Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!2fmmempty From: 2fmmempty@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: alt-tab using usher without progman. Message-ID: <1991Apr3.092731.29429@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 3 Apr 91 09:27:31 CST References: <1991Apr1.144537.29395@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991Apr2.133528.29408@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 31 In article , cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) writes: > > I do not have file manager or program manager loaded. I use Usher as my > shell. The only other programs I have loaded are Screen Peace, WinClock and I have made a new discovery... I can alt-tab between windows.. but I do not get the little bar at the top of a dos screen, I simply alt-tab to the next program, whether that is in windows or not. (the beauty of alt-tab from dos is of course that you do not have to go to the actual windows screen to switch programs, however this is not working for me without progman or file manager - i did find out it will do this as well.) And I have made one more discovery, having at any time loaded and unloaded file manager or progman, I then get the bar at the top of a dos screen when alt-tabbing. Now that is weird. And I have discovered one pitfall, I must have a windows application open somewhere on the desktop, or I cannot alt-tab back to it! I have had to exit the only application I had open to get back to the desktop, so I could launch another program with Usher. I was trapped! Perhaps there is something specific about my machine that needs progman or file Manager to fully activate the alt-tab function.. this is really getting sort of strange. I will keep you posted on new discoveries as I go. Thanks for the help. Stephen