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It’s relatively useless on touchscreens. What are you going to do,

open the onscreen keyboard every time you want to switch apps?

Microsoft’s research found that only 6 percent of Windows fans
actually use Alt+Tab!

So in Windows 10, Microsoft has introduced something that’s much better,

much easier to find, much more visual, and much easier to remember: Task
View.

And then in 2018, Microsoft blessed Task View with something truly
fantastic: the Timeline.

Task View

As Figure 6-3 shows, Task View is a close relative to the Alt+Tab task
switcher—but the window miniatures are big enough to read, and you don’t

have to keep any keys pressed to look over your app world. Just click or tap
the window you want; Windows switches you instantly.

Task View is so important that Microsoft offers a lot of ways to trigger it:

Mouse: Click the Task View button ( ) on the taskbar. It’s right

next to the search box. It’s a pretty good bet that this important
button will be the Task View method most people use, most of the

time.

Keyboard: Press +Tab. Once Task View appears, you can press
any of your arrow keys to highlight successive apps. When you

press the space bar or Enter, the highlighted app pops to the front.

Trackpad: Swipe upward on your trackpad with three fingers

simultaneously. (Swipe down again with three fingers to exit Task
View.)

Touchscreen: Swipe inward from the left edge of the screen. Then
tap the app you want to open.