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From: Catriona R
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:20

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On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:27:12 +0000 (UTC), ScratchMonkey
<ScratchMonk...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:

>Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in news:b7htv7F1nimU1
>@mid.individual.net:
>
>> It occasionally does that to me, restarting the game fixes it, else
>> rebooting the PC. If that's not helping for you, try checking you're
>> in fullscreen windowed mode; it's the most reliable for alt-tabbing I
>> find.
>
>Thankfully it seems to have fixed itself by restarting the game.
>
>(I'm one of those people who leaves stuff running for ages and hate 
>restarting anything.)

I'm the same, but it's the only cure when WoW decides it won't alt-tab
any more, it does it most often when I'm trying to dualbox, which is
particularly irritating; since I have to restart both copies to be
able to reliably access whichever character I wasn't on at the time it
threw its hissy fit. Glad it fixed it for you, anyway!

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