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Alt-Tab script?

I have a couple big monitors I am going to run ORION on and I'm wondering if anyone has seen, or written any apps, or maybe a script that will periodically rotate the screen that is displayed on your PC. I'm thinking some type of auto alt-tab deal where I have a few Solarwinds sessions running on the sam PC and it will just switch displays at set intervals....

Thanks!

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justsomeguy1988

Great idea! If you are using Firefox you could install the Auto Toggle Tabs extension (addons.mozilla.org/.../2668).

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justsomeguy1988

Great idea! If you are using Firefox you could install the Auto Toggle Tabs extension (addons.mozilla.org/.../2668).

sgreath

Sweet! That is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

bwr

I would like to do this also. Does anyone know of an Internet Explorer add-on that functions in the same manner as the Auto Toggle Tabs extension for Firefox?

Thanks.

sgreath

I never did find a plug-in for IE to do this. One way you can accomplish the same result though is to put this into notepad and save it as whatever.vbs. Then double click the file.

Option Explicit
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do
objShell.SendKeys "%+{TAB}"
Wscript.Sleep 30000
Loop

You can adjust the toggle time by modifying the Wscript.Sleep 30000 line. To break out of the script you have to do a ctl-alt-del and kill the wscript.exe process.

Open up several IE windows and it will toggle through them.

wjcmalana

There's also a Firefox add-on called "TabSlideshow", I use this in conjunction with another addon called "ReloadEvery:

bwr

Thanks the script is pretty handy. I'm using IE7 with tabs so I tweaked it a little bit to look like this:

Option Explicit
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do
      objShell.SendKeys "^+{TAB}"
      Wscript.Sleep 1000
      objshell.sendkeys "{F5}"
      Wscript.Sleep 10000
loop

Hopefully Firefox is in my near future.

jay_c

Although it has not been updated. I have used AutoTab by AnalogX to flip between all active windows (not just IE or Firefox). It runs in the task bar so it can be configured, activated, and deactivated with the mouse.

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/autotab.htm

Jay