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SmartTab

SmartTab, the better Alt-Tab (a Windows Alt-Tab Dialog replacement). Features: Created by Tyberius Prime

Free
Windows
Discontinued

SmartTab, the better Alt-Tab (a Windows Alt-Tab Dialog replacement).

Features:

All windows with small icons & full title at a glance.
Activate a window either by using the regular alt-tab dance, or hit a key between 0 and 9 and a-z (choosing the window you want), or by clicking it's title (usefull when you've got your right hand at the mouse already), or by scrolling with your mousewheel.
Less resource hungry than the windows XP power toy alt-tab replacement.
Configurable Colors (via a command line parameter)
Highlighting of windows flashing in task bar (handy in combination with the XP task bar grouping)
Works on Windows 2000 and XP.
No installation required... More Info »

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Discontinued alt-tab alt-tab-replacement alttab portable

SmartTab was added by eltranced in Jun 2011 and the latest update was made in Nov 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2018 There is a history of all activites on SmartTab in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on SmartTab or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Work only on XP, last update was in 2006. See http://smarttab.org/download.php

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