Contexts lets you switch to windows with search. Press Control-Space (or whichever keyboard shortcut you prefer) to open the Search window. Type a few characters from an app name or window title to filter the list. Press Return to switch to the selected item.
The machine is Windows 7 Pro, Core 2 Duo P9700 with 8gb of memory. An interesting fact is that sandbox solution uses 42% of CPU vs 55% of in-process solution. Another noteworthy fact is that sandbox solution contains 350k context switches, which is much more than the 200k context switches that we can infer from source code. Jul 29, 2020 The method to switch between open apps in Task View replaced 'Windows Flip 3D' from Windows 7, and 'Switcher' in Windows 8. 1 Do step 2, step 3, or step 4 below for how you would like to open Task View. The ability to do context switching is an essential component for any multitasking OS. The same type of things that cause context switching in Linux would cause context switching in Windows as well. All a high thread count means is that the CPU will be forced to switch contexts more often to fulfill the processing requirements of the scheduler.
And in Contexts 3 we have taken search to a new level. Our goals were simple but ambitious: You should need as few keystrokes as possible — ideally just two for your frequently used windows; And it should be as deterministic as possible — so you can switch without even looking at the results most of the time. Here is how it works:
Fast Search. If you want to go even faster, enable Fast Search, hold down the Fn key (or whichever modifier key you prefer1) and type a one or two character query (or a longer one if you want to). The Search window will appear with the results. Just release Fn and the selected item will come to the front. Combine this with search shortcuts and you can switch to Safari with Fn-s, Notes with Fn-n, Messages with Fn-me and so on. In two or three keystrokes, that is.
1. Contexts recognizes left & right modifier keys separately. So you can set Fast Search to use, for example, only the left Option key or only the right Option key. The other modifier key will continue to work as it does by default.