Alt+Tab still fails in Windows 10 August Patch Tuesday

Microsoft is not managing to solve the problems with the updates it launches for Windows 10. Despite the arrival of Windows 11, the Windows that we have been using up to now is still present on the vast majority of computers and The latest bug is related to games and the Alt + Tab key combination.

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The feature affects users who have July Patch Tuesday installed and to the surprise of users, it also still present in August Patch Tuesdayreleased a few days ago under patch KB5004296.However, it can be fixed by uninstalling the update or turning off the News & Interests feed."

Problems playing in full screen

The problem is that patch KB5004296, available to everyone running version 21H1, version 20H2, version 2004, and version 1909Windows 10 is crashing with the Alt + Tab functionality on some computers.

Thanks to this key combination, the user can quickly switch between the different windows that are currently open and affects especially users who are running a game and who with this problem cannot access another open application running in another window.

If we are using a full screen game, we will not be able to use Alt + Tab to, for example, switch to the browser application or any other applicationthat we have open.What this failure causes is that Windows takes the user to the desktop instead of allowing the change between applications as we press Tab. To return to an application that is running, we will also have to start it again, because when trying to return, the screen appears black.

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This error occurs if the most recent patch is running and for now there is no solution from Microsoft beyond the already known uninstallation of the patch that is causing problems. The process to remove the update is as follows. To uninstall update KB5004296, the process goes through the path Settings, Update and securityand within it click on View update history The next step is to use the option Uninstall updates checking the update KB5004296 and then clicking the Uninstall button"

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Another option can be to run the game in windowed mode, a solution that may not make the game experience attractive and also, from Lifehacker they affirm that it can be solved in a most striking way that happens for disabling the News and Interests feed>News and Interests, choosing Disable"

We will have to wait for Patch Tuesday in September to find out if Microsoft finally corrects the bug in the new update it releases for Windows 10.

Via | Lifehacker