preventing focus switch

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Sean

Is there any way to prevent windows from changing to focus
to a newly opened program after you have started it then
switched focus to something you are already working on?
Its a minor thing, but annoying as hell.


cheers
sean
 
Sean said:
Is there any way to prevent windows from changing to focus
to a newly opened program after you have started it then
switched focus to something you are already working on?
Its a minor thing, but annoying as hell.


cheers
sean
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Try Clicking properties for the shortcut, where it says run, select "run
mimimized".
 
Sean said:
Is there any way to prevent windows from changing to focus
to a newly opened program after you have started it then
switched focus to something you are already working on?
Its a minor thing, but annoying as hell.
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Yes. Either install TweakUI for Win2K (link may wrap):
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/powertoys/networking/nttweakui.asp
and set the last option on the General tab.

Or you can manually edit your registry (Start/Run/Regedit):

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop
Edit the key ForegroundLockTimeout and give it a value of
00030d40 (hexadecimal)

You can also set the taskbar to flash a specific number of
times when another app wants to steal focus by setting
ForegroundFlashCount to this number.

Rick
 
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