But what does Alt+Tab do? Alt-Tab is simply a keyboard shortcut to switch between opened windows on your Desktop. Windows 11 has multitasking functionality, which allows users to treat the Edge browser tabs as windows so that users can switch tabs by using the same Alt+Tab keyboard shortcut. Although there is a simple workaround by using Windows key + Tab instead of Alt+tab, sometimes this can be annoying for old schools like me, who want windows and tabs as separate entities. Fortunately, there is a simple setting to stop tabs from being treated as windows for Edge.
Remove Edge Tabs from Alt Tab using Windows Settings
Follow these steps to disable Edge tabs in Alt Tab functionality:
Remove Edge Tabs from Alt Tab using Windows Settings Remove Edge tabs from Alt Tab using Windows Registry Configure Inclusion of Edge Tabs into Alt Tab Experience using Group Policy Remove Edge tabs from Alt Tab using PowerShell and Command Prompt
Remove Edge tabs from Alt Tab using Windows Registry
If you are an advanced user, you can follow the steps below to disable Edge tabs in Alt Tab using Windows Registry: You can also open Windows Settings using Windows Key + I keyboard shortcut This will stop Windows 11 from showing tabs in the Alt+Tab functionality. You can also select to display three or five most recent tabs from Edge if you don’t want to disable the functionality completely. Selecting All tabs will display all the opened tabs in Edge.
Configure Inclusion of Edge Tabs into Alt Tab Experience using Group Policy
As a sysadmin, you can also apply the same functionality across your network. You can also use our top selection of disk imaging and backup software so you never lose your data or operating system again. You can also open the Registry Editor by opening the Run dialog and running the regedit command. You can also set the following values according to your requirements: You can configure this option from Group Policy in both the local system and an Active Directory environment. You can also start the Group Policy Editor by opening the Run dialog and running gpedit.msc command.
Remove Edge tabs from Alt Tab using PowerShell and Command Prompt
If you are a command line guy and want to configure this functionality using PowerShell, just run the following command: This will completely disable the Edge tabs from appearing in the Alt Tab dialog. You will only see one Edge window. You can also use the following command in Command Prompt to achieve the same result: Which method do you prefer to configure this Alt Tab functionality in Windows 11?
