A fast window switcher for Windows using the keyboard.
FastWindowSwitcher is a window switcher/task switcher for Windows 7 and Windows 10. It is optimized for fast keyboard usage and can be used as an alternative for ALT-TAB.
- Look at the window title or taskbar button of the window you want to go next.
- Press the label hotkey (default Win-Y). Now all selectable window titles and taskbar buttons will be labeled with a key
- Press the desired key. This window is now selected.
Unzip FastWindowSwitcher-xxxx.zip to any location. Run FastWindowSwitcher.exe. The default hotkey to show the labels is Win-Y (optimized for a German keyboard layout). The hotkey can be changed in the setting dialog. The settings dialog can be accessed by the tray icon context menu.
- For easy access of the taskbar buttons the taskbutton grouping should be turned off in the Window panel settings.
- It is not possible to click the labels with the mouse. FastWindowSwitcher is keyboard only.
- If you want to start FastWindowSwichter with Windows create an shortcut to FastWindowSwitcher.exe inside the Windows Autostart folder
FastWindowSwitcher is released under the GNU General Public License 3
FastWindowSwitcher is based on the idea of vimfx/Vimium browser plug-ins to use label to mark a location you want to go next. During development i found HerbiClicker, but i was not able to get this program into a working state.