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Stop Windows XP applications from stealing focus

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20263067 views
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I have Windows XP Profesional here and it gets very annoying when an application that I launched five minutes ago finally brings up its main window and steals focus from the email that I'm writing (or other currently focused window). Is there any way, native to Windows XP, that I can disable this? …

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Fix for: Stop Windows XP applications from stealing focus

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As provided by this tips & tricks article: To prevent applications from stealing the focus from the window you are working in: Start Regedit Go to Edit the key Give it a value of You should have permission to modify this as a regular user (a corpora…

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