{"id":17094,"date":"2021-07-13T02:29:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T02:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=17094"},"modified":"2021-07-13T02:31:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T02:31:38","slug":"enable-last-active-click-for-taskbar-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/enable-last-active-click-for-taskbar-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Last Active Click for Taskbar in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, all open windows of a certain app will be combined into a single taskbar button. Click that button and you&#8217;ll see the preview thumbnail of every window, but it&#8217;s a bit difficult to find which one is the last active window. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you how to enable the Last Active Click feature in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7, so you can switch to the last active window with just a single click.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/taskbar-button-preview-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/taskbar-button-preview-thumbnail.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/taskbar-button-preview-thumbnail-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Enable Last Active Click for Taskbar in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-open-registry-editor-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to: <code>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced<\/code>. In the left pane, right-click on the <strong>Advanced<\/strong> key and select <strong>New<\/strong> -&gt; <strong>DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/new-dword.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/new-dword.png 560w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/new-dword-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Name the new value <strong>LastActiveClick<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LastActiveClick.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LastActiveClick.png 560w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/LastActiveClick-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Double-click the <strong>LastActiveClick<\/strong> value and change the value data from 0 to 1. Click <strong>OK<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/edit-dword.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/edit-dword.png 331w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/edit-dword-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Close Registry Editor and restart your PC. The next time you open multiple windows of Chrome, just click the taskbar icon and the last active window will open directly. Keep clicking on the taskbar button to cycle through the open windows of Chrome.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/open-last-active-window.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/open-last-active-window.png 311w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/open-last-active-window-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, all open windows of a certain app will be combined into a single taskbar button. Click that button and you&#8217;ll see the preview thumbnail of every window, but it&#8217;s a bit difficult to find which one is the last active window. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you how to enable the Last Active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39],"tags":[4692,4690,4691],"class_list":["post-17094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-last-active-click-windows-10","tag-last-active-taskbar-button","tag-taskbar-switch-to-last-active-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17094"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17106,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17094\/revisions\/17106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}