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Colin Higbie
I hate when a window steals the focus from where I'm typing. I don't care if
it wants to tell me my house is on fire, it doesn't do anyone any good to
pop up a window when I'm typing, because I inevitably hit the keyboard
shortcut to close the window and miss the message altogether. This is
especially annoying if I'm downloading a big file in IE - the window pops up
to tell me that it's done downloading and is copying the file. As I'm typing
away, I trigger the cancel button throwing out the entire download,
potentially one that took hours.
Yes, I know TweakUI includes a setting to "Prevent Application from Stealing
Focus," but it doesn't stick. Every time I restart my computer, it's back to
being turned off.
I found the setting in the Registry - HKCU\Control
Panel\Desktop\ForegroundLockTimeout. I set that to a decimal 200,000 (that's
what TweakUI does). It sticks around for a while, but on restart it always
gets reset to 0.
What could cause that and how do I prevent it? And why on Earth is it not
the default? Does anyone like other windows to steal their focus?
Thanks,
Colin
it wants to tell me my house is on fire, it doesn't do anyone any good to
pop up a window when I'm typing, because I inevitably hit the keyboard
shortcut to close the window and miss the message altogether. This is
especially annoying if I'm downloading a big file in IE - the window pops up
to tell me that it's done downloading and is copying the file. As I'm typing
away, I trigger the cancel button throwing out the entire download,
potentially one that took hours.
Yes, I know TweakUI includes a setting to "Prevent Application from Stealing
Focus," but it doesn't stick. Every time I restart my computer, it's back to
being turned off.
I found the setting in the Registry - HKCU\Control
Panel\Desktop\ForegroundLockTimeout. I set that to a decimal 200,000 (that's
what TweakUI does). It sticks around for a while, but on restart it always
gets reset to 0.
What could cause that and how do I prevent it? And why on Earth is it not
the default? Does anyone like other windows to steal their focus?
Thanks,
Colin