Shockingly, a new Windows update has reportedly wrecked the most popular Alt-Tab feature of Windows that was quite handy for multi-tasking. Users who have downloaded the latest update for July (KB5004296) and August, 21 (KB5005033) updates for Windows 10 are facing troubles in accessing its most admired feature Alt-Tab.
What does this Alt-Tab function do?
While using Windows 10, if you hold down Alt and then press the Tab key on the keyboard, you can scroll through the apps and windows you have open. Once you stop pressing on the Tab key, the highlighted window or app you stop on will be selected and you can jump right to it. This is a quick and handy way to jump between apps and is extremely useful if you using a full-screen application, like playing a game, and you need to move to another app. This feature also helps if one of the apps or tabs you are on becomes unresponsive. The Alt-Tab feature can get you out of that app/tab that’s not working and you can also save the rest of your work and troubleshoot issues.
How to fix the broken Alt-Tab function?
There are ways to fix the problem. Some users have reported that uninstalling the faulty update fixes the issues. While that makes sense, it is a rather severe way of fixing the problem. Removing the updates means that you will be missing out on any other fixes and additional features that the update has brought in. So ideally, uninstalling the last update should be the last resort.
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The other way to fix this is by disabling the ‘News and Interests’ feed which is a new addition to Windows 10. This ‘News and Interests’ feed seems to be what is causing the issue. To resolve this issue, just right-click on the Windows 10 taskbar and click on ‘Settings’, then go to the ‘News and interests’ section and click on ‘Turn off’. This will disable the ‘News and Interests’ widget in the taskbar and will make Alt-Tab work again.
