Unwanted programs in ALT+TAB window

Hello everybody,
I experienced a little problem days ago and it still present.
I have Windows 8.1 64bit English version with no "wierd" programs installed: I have Microsoft Office, Hyper-V enabled and that's all.
Every time I switch on my computer and I go to the Networks Pane (where you can enable/disable wireless and connect to a wireless network choosing from the list) or I search for apps using WIN button and typing the program name I see that these two programs
(Search Pane and Network Pane I just used) appears in my ALT+TAB window and they don't disappear.
I already cleaned the windows up: using ccleaner, hijackthis and using Disk Cleanup on my system partition. But all these actions didn't solve this annoying problem.
Does someone experienced this?

See the answer of dreik.
That solved my problem!
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer and
delete setting named AltTabSettings.

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