
But it is annoying that I have to do it almost every time after booting up my computer for the first time… This seems like the obvious thing to do when things don’t work well and, surprisingly or not, in my case, it’s this fix that solves the problem. If it doesn’t, try some of the recommended solutions below. This will simply restart your Windows Explorer, which is represented by the desktop and taskbar and should fix all problems. Finally, click the “Restart” button in the lower left corner. This will bring up the Task Manager on your screen:Ģ -> There, as seen in the image above, click the “Processes” tab and then click “Windows Explorer”. In my case, this particular fix never worked, but it’s the easiest of them all to try and the first I checked as it only takes a few seconds:ġ -> Press, at the same time, Ctrl + Shift + Esc on your keyboard. Now, let’s try some actual fixes for the problem, which may or might not work. Holding the Alt key pressed, hit the “Tab” button as many times as you need to get to the program you want to switch to.

Simply browse the program list to the left or type the name of the program you want to launch in the search bar.


Here are the two shortcuts you need to know: This is not really a fix, but a workaround and even though it’s not ideal, if none of the fixes below work, you might have to use it instead.īasically, this means that you should launch the programs you want to use, then take advantage of a few keyboard shortcuts in order to navigate between them.
