Nope, it's not like Alt F4. And it doesn't close anything. But it only seems to work on some mahchines..
Inside which program?
I tried both VS2008, VS2005 and with nothing open, but nothing happens...
Guess I'm not lucky :(
This is NVidia drivers feature, so it only work on computers with NVidia graphics card.
BTW, in Visual Studio Ctrl-Alt-Down Arrow opens Active Files popup. Nice :-)
Looks like this only works with specific graphics cards (Mine is an intel, it seems)
Works on my machine, set about round the office trying it on all the others and it doesn't work on any of them! Now the whole office knows how to annoy me when i forget to lock my PC, but I can't get back at them!
In vs.net 2005, it'll pop up the dropdown with the additional tabs open which aren't in-view in the tabbar (That stupid downbutton next to X). I didn't know that :).
But for the rest, nothing happens.
I'm on Desktop 1 - and that moves me to Desktop 3 :)
i'm guessing you were in VS with Resharper installed, had highlighted a variable and were trying to find the next occurrence. i know at my office, it causes the screen to become inverted. kind of a surprise the first time.
Used to happen with me all the time by accident. First time was actually scary. In my case, if I pressed right-Alt + any Arrow, the screen would rotate or flip. I think it was part of the graphics card installed driver or utilities. It was an intel chip as well.
Works with my Intel video card as well...
Ha! I just found out about that myself when the baby hit that magic key combo on my wife's laptop. Took some google-fu to figure it out.
No screen rotation for me :( (event with an NVidia card). But I remember it working on another desktop.
This way much more fun to do to people who aren't as comfortable with their computer as a developer is.