Soldato
How do I stop windows stealing focus when I'm working?
It is driving me INSANE.
Tried Tweakui, no avail
It is driving me INSANE.
Tried Tweakui, no avail
Windows - Focus Stealing $%^@!
- Thread starter meghatronic
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There used to be an option in TweakUI to do this.
Soldato
Tweakui - General>Focus
Not sure how good it is though.
Not sure how good it is though.
Soldato
I've recently had this on some laptops I've setup at work. TweakUI didn't do much, so I had to track it manually.
Turned out it was "utility.exe", a process that's installed with a (crap) Belkin PCMCIA wireless adapter. I've extracted the drivers from the OS since then, and installed them manually. No utility.exe, no focus losing.
Use Process Explorer to keep an eye on what's stealing focus. There's no obvious way of doing it, just keep it open, and have a look around for very small CPU spikes from certain processes. It bugged the hell out of me.
Alternatively, killing explorer.exe, then starting it again seemed to sort it too, but that's obviously not ideal.
Turned out it was "utility.exe", a process that's installed with a (crap) Belkin PCMCIA wireless adapter. I've extracted the drivers from the OS since then, and installed them manually. No utility.exe, no focus losing.
Use Process Explorer to keep an eye on what's stealing focus. There's no obvious way of doing it, just keep it open, and have a look around for very small CPU spikes from certain processes. It bugged the hell out of me.
Alternatively, killing explorer.exe, then starting it again seemed to sort it too, but that's obviously not ideal.
TweakUI never helped...