How do I alt+tab out of EverQuest and return to the game?
would really be helpful if I could use Notepad or the web while I’m playing. A: SOE has enabled windowed mode in EQ. To activate it, hit alt+enter. Then hit alt+shift+R to release the mouse. Once that is done, you can minimize the window that EQ is on, and run other tasks, surf the web, or even open another instance of EQ if your machine can handle that and you have another account on which to play. Note, this ability to break out of EQ and stay in the game seems somewhat glitchy, and doesn’t work well for all users and can be broken after major patches. 3.5.1 Q: How do I get Alt+Tab to work for Windows XP A: (From the EQ Live FAQ, with some modifications owing to the dead link they provide) Windows XP keeps a list of program compatibility information. Up until recently, EverQuest was not built to allow Alt + Tab, and so our executable ended up in this list explicitly preventing the Alt + Tab functionality. Obviously that has changed. We are working on getting that changed. But in the
