If you're playing any type of D3D full screen game then
the antispyware client tries to be the foreground
application, causing a number of games to fail. Excuse
me if this sounds like a rant, but heck I WANT to play
games at 2am and whilst I could change the time for the
scan my PC does not stay on all the time... indeed, if I
let the scan start - then play the game it's fine - it's
just the situation when the game is already playing and
the scheduled scan starts.
It's not hard to fix, just don't force the application
focus... please

Thanks, Mike

>-----Original Message-----
>If you're playing any type of D3D full screen game then
>the antispyware client tries to be the foreground
>application, causing a number of games to fail. Excuse
>me if this sounds like a rant, but heck I WANT to play
>games at 2am and whilst I could change the time for the
>scan my PC does not stay on all the time... indeed, if I
>let the scan start - then play the game it's fine - it's
>just the situation when the game is already playing and
>the scheduled scan starts.
>It's not hard to fix, just don't force the application
>focus... please
>
>Thanks, Mike


Thanks for speaking up. This issue has aroused ire since
the beginning of the beta. I feel reasonably sure that
it is on the minds of the beta2 developers.

But wait, did I miss something here? The Spyware Scan
Scheduler includes these two options:

[] Do not display scan results.

[] Do not display scan progress.

Have you tried checking those? You can also eliminate the
pop-ups, if that is bugging you...

I'm not convinced those options are, in fact, effective, fwiw. I may be
wrong, but I believe I've seen reports here of those options failing.

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"peruser" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:05c601c599fe$531d01c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> But wait, did I miss something here? The Spyware Scan
> Scheduler includes these two options:
>
> [] Do not display scan results.
>
> [] Do not display scan progress.
>
> Have you tried checking those? You can also eliminate the
> pop-ups, if that is bugging you...

[daven]

This is a really old thread, I hope someone is still watching it. I'm using Oracle at work, and it is SO impolite! Oracle programs routinely grab the focus when I'm typing something, so that what I type goes to the wrong program... to add insult to injury, the offending program then squawks at me for whatever I'm typing.

I use TweakUI every morning to make sure the DO-NOT-STEAL-FOCUS flag is set. I have checked HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\ForegroundLockTimeout to make sure it contains 30d40. Still, these obnoxious programs steal the focus.

Does anyone have any other ideas?