Is there a pop-up blocker to prevent Windows apps from stealingfocus?

S

S Claus

Hi all...

web browsers have pop-up blockers. What I would like to have is a pop-
up blocker that controls the Windows on my Windows XP SP3, so that
they will not be able to steal focus.

So that they will work more like X-Windows for Unix, in that the focus
follows the mouse.

Knowing Windows I guess this type of a pop-up blocker would have to
run as a service?

Because that old tip of writing the hex value of "30d40" into
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Control Panel \Desktop \ForegroundLockTimeout
certainly is quite useless - very many Microsoft applications ignore
it altogether (and most other vendors applications do as well).

But if anyone knows of a software that can block windows from stealing
focus, would be nice to hear about it.

Thanks in advance.
 
R

relic

S said:
Hi all...

web browsers have pop-up blockers. What I would like to have is a pop-
up blocker that controls the Windows on my Windows XP SP3, so that
they will not be able to steal focus.

So that they will work more like X-Windows for Unix, in that the focus
follows the mouse.

Knowing Windows I guess this type of a pop-up blocker would have to
run as a service?

Because that old tip of writing the hex value of "30d40" into
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Control Panel \Desktop \ForegroundLockTimeout
certainly is quite useless - very many Microsoft applications ignore
it altogether (and most other vendors applications do as well).

But if anyone knows of a software that can block windows from stealing
focus, would be nice to hear about it.

Thanks in advance.

www.microsoft.com
PowerToys
TweakUI
\General\Focus
 

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