Digging into shortcuts problems

[inv2004]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.47+

Installation method

GitHub

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Keyboard Manager

Steps to reproduce

I lot of bugs reported about the problem without any progress

• [KBM]Setting ctrl+tab mapped to alt+tab doesn't work 80% of the time #28954
• Alt+Tab Remapped to Ctrl+Tab occasionally lose functions. [Keyboard Manager]  #29265

Powertoys started like very useful tool, but, at some point, it started to annoy - nothing more annoying than your shortcuts does not worked sometimes. Like it was mentioned - pretty a lot of reports about it. I did not collect all of them.

Few days ago I created even more complicate keys combination and found that even old 0.68 (because new releases loose alt+tab every 15 minutes) fails with it too. I even thought that the problem is with my new keyboards.

I went to very old version and found that keys work ike a charm, and looks like it works even faster than before.

So, for anyone who is interested - the last version which works perfect is 0.46.0. Everything after does not work: I tried: 0.68.1, 0.62.1, 0.59.1, 0.49.1, 0.47.1, 0.47.0 - nothing works

Just to highlight it one more time 0.46 is the last good version

I someone knows good alternative for the PT, please comment about it. Because feels like PT unfortunately is not usable any more for the last few years

Regards,

✔️ Expected Behavior

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❌ Actual Behavior

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Other Software

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[inv2004]

It is not very related to the issue, modern PT is buggy even on some simple remaps. Just for history here is my current configuration:

[ID-VerNe]

I have used AutoHotKey for remapping since this bug happend 2 years ago, and key-bmap for ctrl&alt switchinng, and they both work well.

[inv2004]

@ID-VerNe what is the key-bmap? Google did not help me

[ID-VerNe]

@ID-VerNe what is the key-bmap? Google did not help me

It is a software that lets U change key assignments through the registry. U can use .reg to change them.
U need to change the Google search language to Simplified Chinese and U can get the results.

[inv2004]

@ID-VerNe I know some remappers with reg, but they does not help to remap ctrl+tab to alt+tab. This is the reason I sticked to powertoys

[ID-VerNe]

@ID-VerNe I know some remappers with reg, but they does not help to remap ctrl+tab to alt+tab. This is the reason I sticked to powertoys

AutoHotKey can help U

[crutkas]

Going to reference this in the top of the dup issue

/dup #17344

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!