Prevent apps stealing focus on Vista

Published on February 27, 2007 By thomassen In Windows Vista

How do you prevent apps from stealing the focus of the forground window on Vista?
I searched for it and all the articles all refer to the same registry key that has to be changed. Which I have, but it doesn't work. Windows still steals focus which is very annoying when I'm typing something.
Anyone managed to get this working?

Comments

ifyoucouldshutup

on Mar 21, 2007

hi wally here,
i use tweakui even though its for xp i think you can get it at tweakxp.com
not alot of the "tweaks" work on vista but the focus thing does

ShelbyGT_The_Car

on Mar 25, 2007

Thomassen contact me at my email address and I'll see what I can do for you.

WWW Link

SGT

thomassen

on Apr 04, 2007

o.. didn't see there was a reply here untli now.

thomassen

on May 09, 2007

doh!
I did a google on it because I still haven't found a solution. and my own post is second on the list! argf

ALMonty

on May 09, 2007

There is TweakVista you can get it here WWW Link I don't know if it will help.

thomassen

on May 18, 2007

The XP solution did actually work. Turns out that some app had disabled it again. grrr! (Seriously, who do they do this?!)
I think I'll set up a .reg file to make sure this setting is maintained.

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