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| quote: | Originally posted by rockster77
pissing me off:
i am surfing the net using IE and i have more than one IE window opened at a time. in one window, i click on a link and the page starts to load. i then click over to the other window to and start surfing from there but as soon as the page in the other window loads, IE puts that window back on top. this is really pissing me off. can i disable this feature? i want the page to load but when i click over to another window, i don't want the first window to be automatically placed on top again. what can i do to disable this? |
Ok, a little bit complicated, done through the registry, but this is the only way known by me...
To do what you are talking about (to disable the automatic focus pop-up) you should modify two values, depending on the way you would like applications to take the focus. The first setting controls whether applications simply steal the focus, that is pop-up over the existing in focus window, or if instead they wait in the background and flash the taskbar icon. The second setting controls the flashing of the icon.
Open your registry using the program Regedt32 (and not the simple regedit), located in the System32 folder and find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.
Create a new DWORD value named 'ForegroundLockTimeout', or modify it, if it already exists. Change the value to either the timeout required, or to '0' which causes the application to take the focus instantly. The default value is '200000' (0x00030d40 hex). I don't know the relation... The default computer clock metrics use milliseconds so 200000 should be 200 seconds, but it seems to be a large timeout. Probably, it's microseconds. Put an infinetely large number for the problem to be partially solved (pitifully, there is no way to stop the application from taking the focus and popping-up at all... The only way you can go around is to change the timeout before it pops up)
The other settings affects the number of times the icon flashes if above value was not set to zero.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called 'ForegroundFlashCount' set the value (in decimal) to the number times to flash the taskbar icon, setting the value to '0' cases the icon to flash infinitely. The default value is '3'.
Exit your registry, you may need to restart for the changes to take effect.
But always remember: modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. I cannot guarantee that problems resulting from modifications to the registry can be solved. Use the information provided at your own risk. Moreover, don't even try to do it if you have questions like "What is the registry".
[the tweak was taken from www.regedit.com]
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Last edited by Jocker on Mar-07-2001 at 10:58
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