Losing your Focus (Your Windows Focus)
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Ever done that or had that happen? Do you hate when that happens? Maybe you just hate how windows constantly puts items in the front of your screen whenever it wants something. Well, there is hope.
Microsoft has a tool called TweakUI that will allow you to stop this. Sure, Windows XP is so "has been", but for those of us bucking Vista - it's still pretty useful.
You can get TweakUI here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Once you install it and run it, look at the General / Focus options:
You can check the "Prevent Applications from stealing focus". I also turned on the "Flash taskbar button until I click on it" just because maybe it really is something important like "There's a sale at Penney's!"
Incidentally - I picked this tip up from my newest book:
Incidentally - I picked this tip up from my newest book:
Comments
I also like the X-mouse feature (moving your mouse over a window gives it focus, instead of requiring you click on it). Extra handy when you want to keep a window on top (e.g. to view the contents as you type them into another application) but need the focus on another application (where you're typing the data).