Comments on: TIP – Stop Applications in Windows Stealing Focus

By: discount provillus

discount provillus — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:03:57 +0000

Well I’ve got vista now, and there seems to be a huge problem with windows grabbing the focus – its like XP, but back before this I used this setting. And no tweak XP for vista. So I looked up the reg key that it sets, and it IS ALREADY SET!? does this setting no longer work in vista!?

By: Security Equipment

Security Equipment — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:01:26 +0000

True, the whole process can get pretty complicated and get rather annoying when you don’t know whats going on! these applications can be really frustrating!

By: Vineet Dwivedi

Vineet Dwivedi — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:24:51 +0000

Yes, It sometimes become annoying with applications which want to put themselves on top.

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resep masakan indonesia — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:00:33 +0000

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By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:47:26 +0000

Very useful tips to stop focus stealers, especially when working with many applications open, I’m going to try this now. Thanks a lot.

By: Websi

Websi — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:56:30 +0000

Thanks for the work around to that on going problem! I am glad that I read this post and can now have more focus on the programs I am currently trying to use rather than background process and such!

By: System focus | keyongtech

System focus | keyongtech — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:08:07 +0000

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By: seasonale

seasonale — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:01:06 +0000

Advanced xp toolbar is really awesome, i have been using it since few months now.

By: Barry Cleave

Barry Cleave — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:42:21 +0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your detailed comment, great to get this sort of feedback

I will have a look at it in a bit more detail, probably at the weekend.

Regards,

Barry

By: Mike Evans

Mike Evans — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:04:29 +0000

This fix (either using TweakUI or editing the registry directly) seems to work OK with Applications, but not with Windows itself.
Let me explain :
When downloading a large file from a website, Windows will put the file into a temporary directory. Once the download is complete, Windows will “COPY” the file from the temporary area to the folder you chose at the beginning of the download.
The copy process steals focus !!!!
The problem is that the “copy” dialog box has only one button – the “Cancel” button.
If you’re downloading a large file in background and typing in another application in the foreground, then you could hit the “return” key just as the “copy cancel” window pops up.
Net result – instead of hitting the return key in your foreground application, you hit enter on the copy popup – thereby cancelling the large file download.
Now you have to download the large file all over again – what a waste of bandwidth.
Any suggestions of how to stop the Windows copy popup window from stealing focus at the end of file downloads ?