How to nail down which program is stealing focus all the time?

[Michael Moser]

Since a few days I have a phenomen that starts driving me really nuts:

Some program seems to steal the keyboard focus every minute or so. That
means that while I am writing some text or email, again and again I am
suddenly typing into "nirvana" until I realize, that the application
*again* has lost its input focus. I then have to click with the mouse
into its window again to reassign focus and then I have to retype the
last couple of words. This is soooo distracting!

I guess it must be some utility that runs in the background and
regularly checks for something but I haven't been able to identify the
culprit so far. Apparently it always runs so shortly that it doesn't
show up in the task manager's top CPU list. Any idea, how I could list
the last couple of processes that ran?

I am starting to get mad due to this!!!

Michael

 

[Stan Brown]

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:48:26 +0100 from Swifty

TweakUI has a setting which prevents other applications from taking the
focus, but this causes problems when you want to launch a program and
have it take the focus.

And it sometimes doesn't work, at least for me. AVG Free still grabs
focus three times in every update session.

 

[Piers]

I have also found that TweakUi doesn't always solve this problem but the main
reason seems to be that it does not retain the setting when the computer is
switched off. It is a "per session" setting as well as a "per user" one.