Alan VanCouvering, known to many in the Everquest community as Absor made a recent post to the Developers Corner regarding Windows Xp not allowing Users to Alt+Tab out of Everquest once placed in windowed mode.

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How to get Alt +Tab to work for Windows XP 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 meantime, if you are using Windows XP and you would like to enable Alt + Tab, there is a way to get it to work.

First, you'll need the Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit. It's nearly 7 megs.

You'll need to download and install the toolkit. Then:

Open the Compatibility Administration Tool.

At the top go to Search - Query.
Search for EverQuest.
Double click the item the search finds.
Right-Click the EQGame.exe entry and choose Disable.

Thanks to everyone that found this solution and pointed it out to us.

Alan