How to set mouse to autoraise window?

[Stephen Speicher]

I cannot find any settings in XP to change the setting from
clicking to raise a window, to having the window automatically
come to the forefront when the mouse is on it. Would someone
please tell how to do this. Thanks.

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[anonymous]

there probably is no setting for this. you have to pick
the window with mouse button to get window to move to
foreground. might be 3rd party software to do this.
search google/yahoo for this.

 

[pcbutts1]

Get Powertoys for XP http://www.annoyances.org/exec/software/xppowertoys it
is called X-mouse in the mouse section of TweakUI

 

[Mark Shroyer]

there probably is no setting for this. you have to pick
the window with mouse button to get window to move to
foreground. might be 3rd party software to do this.
search google/yahoo for this.

I don't believe there is any simple way to do what you want with the
standard Windows XP configuration dialogs - but it can be done. The
easiest way, in my opinion, is to use Microsoft's TweakUI for Windows XP
Powertoy, available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Once you have TweakUI installed, start the program and choose the option
group Mouse -> X-Mouse. Place a check mark next to both the "Activation
follows mouse" and "Autoraise when activating" options. Your changes
will take effect immediately.


Another option, if you don't want to install TweakUI, is a quick
registry modification.

1) Open regedit. Browse to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop key.

2) Read the UserPreferencesMask value and convert the first (least
significant) byte into a binary value.

3) Looking at this binary number, set bits 0100,0000 (autoraise on
activation) and 0000,0001 (activation follows mouse) to one.

4) Convert the new binary value back into hexadecimal and replace the
old least-significant byte of UserPreferencesMask with this new value.

Now close regedit. Your changes will take effect on your next login.

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[Stephen Speicher]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Mark Shroyer wrote:

[...]

I don't believe there is any simple way to do what you want with the
standard Windows XP configuration dialogs - but it can be done. The
easiest way, in my opinion, is to use Microsoft's TweakUI for Windows XP
Powertoy, available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Once you have TweakUI installed, start the program and choose the option
group Mouse -> X-Mouse. Place a check mark next to both the "Activation
follows mouse" and "Autoraise when activating" options. Your changes
will take effect immediately.

I can't thank you enough for this recommendation. Not only
did TweakUI solve this window raising problem, but on the same
website I discovered the Virtual Desktop Manager, which was the
very next thing I was going to ask about! I have used Linux
for years and I have become so used to to having virtual desktops
that I was quite disappointed not to see such a useful feature
in Windows XP. Thanks for this too!

Since we are on a roll ...

I have been using the Vim editor in Linux and I see on their
website that it is also available for Windows XP. Do you know how
I can get Outlook to use this editor instead of the one which
defaults in Outlook?

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[Stephen Speicher]

Get Powertoys for XP http://www.annoyances.org/exec/software/xppowertoys it
is called X-mouse in the mouse section of TweakUI

Thanks. Another poster pointed me to these, and they are great.

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