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[Dennis]

In Windows 2000 professional, when a program becomes
active, it flashes on and off in a blue colour because it
wants to focus on it. Where abouts in the operating
system can you turn off this property ?

thanks.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Set the The D_Word value
"ForegroundFlashCount"
to zero found at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

 

[Dennis Horne]

Thanks, tried that, but doesn't seem to work for MSN
Messenger, which is the program I mainly want to stop from
doing it. Messenger seems to cause to flash eternally
until you give focus to it.

-----Original Message-----
Set the The D_Word value
"ForegroundFlashCount"
to zero found at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

In Windows 2000 professional, when a program becomes
active, it flashes on and off in a blue colour because it
wants to focus on it. Where abouts in the operating
system can you turn off this property ?

thanks.

.

 

[Dave Patrick]

May be an application specific feature.

 

[Dennis Horne]

I think so, I saw for MSN in the registry, and entry
for 'warning msg count', but I don't think this is it
anyway.