win 10 autohotkey; how do you remap window swapping from alt-tab to ctrl-tab?

Question

I recently swapped the ctrl and alt functions on my computer to make it feel more like a mac, but one thing is still bugging me. When I press alt-tab now I cycle through different tabs of the application I'm using, but I want it to cycle through windows, which is what ctrl-tab now does. Does anyone know of a script I can run to take care of that? Thanks!

EDIT: I still want both the functions, I just want their keys to be swapped (instead of alt-tab swapping windows, I want ctrl-tab to. Instead of ctrl-tab swapping tabs, I want alt-tab to. This is the only function I want swapped)

Answer 1

try this

Ctrl & Tab::AltTab

Answer 2

Make ahk swap 'em keys globally:

LAlt::LCtrl 
LCtrl::LAlt

Answer 3

Like the others have said there seem to be a number of ways to possibly do this:

• try some sort of registry hack

  https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/map-any-key-to-any-key-on-windows-xp-vista/

  https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-caps-lock-key-in-windows-vista/

• try some program which can be used to achieve the registry hack. Note, that I'm seeing limitations on many of the programs that I'm seeing out there though

  Can I swap Alt+Tab for Alt+Esc in Windows 10?

• attempt to rewire your keyboard. This is not really a realistic option in many cases (especially if you're dealing with laptops but I've done stuff like this in the past when spare parts were scarce) but I guess if you're desperate enough it's a possibility

• try the following application. It feels like it could do what you want but I haven't tried it (and I don't have a Windows 10 machine handy)

  How can I restore Ctrl+<key> functionality in Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator?

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4121760/remap-keyboard-combinations-not-just-single-registry-values

• another option is to simply write your own program. Honestly, the question worded strangely so it's easy to misinterpret. You want a program/script to remap based on key combination and timing which shouldn't be too hard to make. If you can't do it yourself go to a place where you can hire someone cheaply to get the code done...

  http://www.rent-acoder.com/

  https://www.freelancer.com.au/

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33705163/how-to-capture-combination-key-event

  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/gg153546%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Answer 4

I borrowed this from somewhere: this will fix not only alt tab, but also alt shift tab.

; Remap Ctrl-Tab to Alt-Tab
^Tab::
Send {Alt down}{Tab}
Keywait Control
Send {Alt up}
return

; Remap Ctrl-Shift-Tab to Alt-Shift-Tab
^+Tab::
Send {Alt down}{Shift down}{Tab}
Keywait Control
Send {Alt up}
Send {Shift up}
return