Windows stealing focus

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Hi,

Does anyone know of a program that prohibit another program from ever ever stealing focus?

It's very very irritating and time consuming to click on the previous window or Alt+Tab to it.:mad:
 
Try setting up multiple virtual screens or desktops with software that allows you to switch between virtual desktops.
Then, place what you are working on in virtual desktop number 2, and work in that desktop, the other program will still be on virtual desktop 1 and will not affect you.

I have forgotten which of these virtual desktop programs are good, but, google is your friend.
 
Thanx for the reply.
I don't think there is another way.
My problem is Windows Updates wants to restart, but I don't wanna now...
I think it will still popup in the Virtual Desktop 2.
 
TweakUIXP has an option to "Prevent Applications from stealing Focus". You can choose to have the taskbar flash until you click on it, or only flash a certain number of times.
 
Oh that .. lol ... just move the "i want to restart now" window to the bottom left corrner and forget about it. Don't close it.
 
davemc said:
Oh that .. lol ... just move the "i want to restart now" window to the bottom left corrner and forget about it. Don't close it.
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He is talking about programs that repeatedly jump to the front of the screen while you are busy doing something else. Prime example is the Sun Java installation program. You see the little icon in your taskbar tray, Java wants to update itself, ok fine. You double click it to open the update program, and click "update" and then go back to what you were doing. Not so fast, the program jumps back to the front and wants you to accept the EULA. You click "Accept" and go back to what you were doing. Not so fast there China, the program now wants to know if it is ok to proceed. FFS!!! :mad: I already clicked "Update" and "Accept"... why the hell do you need to know if you can proceed. Anyways, you click that and it starts downloading the update. when it has downloaded the update it jumps to the front again and asks you if it can install now. Holy crap, I could scream. Why can't the program just do its thing in the background and I will notice that it is finished sometime later. There are lots of programs that do this.
 
Garyvdh said:
You double click it to open the update program, and click "update" and then go back to what you were doing. Not so fast, the program jumps back to the front and wants you to accept the EULA. You click "Accept" and go back to what you were doing. Not so fast there China, the program now wants to know if it is ok to proceed. FFS!!! :mad: I already clicked "Update" and "Accept"... why the hell do you need to know if you can proceed. Anyways, you click that and it starts downloading the update. when it has downloaded the update it jumps to the front again and asks you if it can install now.
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That's exactly what I'm talking about.
It normally happens when I type:
The program asks to restart, I don't see it and type something with Y in hit space bar.... The program accepts that as a Yes or click and there we go, a restart....

@ Gary,
Tried TweakUI XP, no avail. Programs still steal focus...


When AVG Updates and wanna restart, it's so bad that you must select Yes or No. The app stays on top. Sure, you can still see the rest and work on the rest but it's always on top... And that's just naming one...
 
Garyvdh said:
There are lots of programs that do this.
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Yes, like adobe updater - you wouldn't even *know* it does it - and that's the real death trap....the silent killer.

That's worse IMO, i'd push a disable button any day above 500 megs being chowed on stupid Adobe Product Updates. they don't even do anything ffs - where does the 500 mb go?

what kind of freaky code uses a half a Gigabyte? are they sending me their Adobe master clip-art collection or something?:confused:
 
Keeper said:
Yes, like adobe updater - you wouldn't even *know* it does it - and that's the real death trap....the silent killer.

That's worse IMO, i'd push a disable button any day above 500 megs being chowed on stupid Adobe Product Updates. they don't even do anything ffs - where does the 500 mb go?

what kind of freaky code uses a half a Gigabyte? are they sending me their Adobe master clip-art collection or something?:confused:
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Whenever I install an Adobe Product now, that is the first thing I disable.
 
I always disable focus changes using the registry as mentioned above. Nothing worse than working on Citrix/Terminal server with 200 users and you accidentally click "Yes" to reboot the machine after some stupid MS auto update :)
 
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