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05-12-2009
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Active window to front I have a small problem
in vista if I used my media keyboard to open a program it would open but now, whilst browsing with firefox and im listening to media monkey and its on the taskbar in vista I could press the media player button on my keyboard and it would bring media monkey to the front, same if i press calc button now all they do is flash on the taskbar till I hover and click them
can I bring this back somehow is this meant to be happening?
| My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Built OS windows 7 Motherboard Abit IP35 Memory 4GB OCZ @ 810Mhz Graphics Card EVGA Gtx 280 @610/900 Sound Card creative X_FI Monitor(s) Displays LG 24 inch lcd Screen Resolution 1650x1080 Keyboard Logitech media elite Mouse Logitech G9 PSU Thermaltake truepower 700w Case Coolermaster CM 690 modded Cooling Thermaltake Big water Hard Drives 150 GB -WD velociraptor
640 GB -WD |
05-13-2009
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#2 | | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |

Quote: Originally Posted by Decieved Bump no ideas? I'm afraid I can't be of much help except to say that I had the same issue but it's just gone away now. Calc comes to front as expected... | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number baarod/MCP OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit CPU Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.6GHz 9x400FSB Motherboard Gigabyte G33M-S2H Memory 4GB DDR2 1066 Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4670 Sound Card Integrated Azalia Monitor(s) Displays Acer AL1711 Screen Resolution 1280x1024 Keyboard Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard 4000 Mouse Microsoft Wireless Lasr Mouse 5000 PSU 240W TFX Case InWin BT566 Cooling Intel Retail Stock Hard Drives OCZ Vertex SATAII w/ 1.5FW 30,528MB system and apps
Maxtor 6L300R0 PATA 286,188MB page file, data and user profiles Internet Speed 3Mbps Verizon DSL over 802.11g Other Info Hauppauge WinTV PVR II Tuner, Generic $13 SoC Webcam, RT61 WiFi with remote antenna, Media Center Remote and Receiver |
05-13-2009
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Quote: Originally Posted by Decieved I have a small problem
in vista if I used my media keyboard to open a program it would open but now, whilst browsing with firefox and im listening to media monkey and its on the taskbar in vista I could press the media player button on my keyboard and it would bring media monkey to the front, same if i press calc button now all they do is flash on the taskbar till I hover and click them
can I bring this back somehow is this meant to be happening?
Its a bug, Ive been having the same issues with all my applications.
Microsoft doesnt want applications forcing themself into the foreground like pop-up adverts on your desktop and I guess they have been trying to solve a few issues Microsoft has had with SetForegroundWindow Function () since Vista and that unfinished code ended up in the RC | My System Specs | | |
12-16-2009
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#4 | | Windows 7 Professional 64-bit |
any idea if there is a fix for this issue? I am running Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self Built OS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit CPU Intel i7-860@2.8 Motherboard Asus P7P55D-E-EVO Memory 8GB DDR3 1600 Graphics Card Nvidia Quadro FX380 Sound Card Sound Blaster x-Fi Titanium Monitor(s) Displays Dual Dell2209WA PSU Cooler Master Silent Pro 500w Case Cooler Master 690 Pure Cooling Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus Hard Drives 1 x WD 73GB 10K Drive
2 x WD 1TB Drives |
12-16-2009
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Try this, open Regedit and go ti the following location,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
look for "ForegroundLockTimeout, right click and select Modif, change the base to Decimal then set the value to 0. Log off and back on or reboot for the change to take affect. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Me OS Win 7 Ultimate x64 CPU Phenom II x4 955 @ 4 GHz. Motherboard Asus M5A97 EVO Memory 2x2 GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 Graphics Card Sapphire HD 6850 Sound Card X-Fi Xtreme Music w/ Logitech X-530 Monitor(s) Displays Acer P221w Screen Resolution 1680x1050 Keyboard Logitech Wave Mouse Logitech G5 v2 PSU Antec Earthwatts 650W Green Case Antec Sonata III Cooling Cooler Master 212 EVO Hard Drives 2x80 GB Seagate 7200.9
500 GB Seagate 7200.12 Internet Speed 24000/1000 |
12-17-2009
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#6 | | Windows 7 Professional 64-bit |
Hey stormy13, Thanks for the tip.
After much testing i have discovered the issue is with the Logitech Set-Point Keyboard Shortcuts which i have created. If I launch the applications from the Start Button > All Programs > and launch those apps from there....they will pop up on the foreground.
Not sure yr tip to edit the registry will do anything to correct this scenario....but i will give it a try.... Many Thanks | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self Built OS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit CPU Intel i7-860@2.8 Motherboard Asus P7P55D-E-EVO Memory 8GB DDR3 1600 Graphics Card Nvidia Quadro FX380 Sound Card Sound Blaster x-Fi Titanium Monitor(s) Displays Dual Dell2209WA PSU Cooler Master Silent Pro 500w Case Cooler Master 690 Pure Cooling Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus Hard Drives 1 x WD 73GB 10K Drive
2 x WD 1TB Drives |
12-17-2009
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#7 | | Windows 7 Professional 64-bit |

Quote: Originally Posted by stormy13 Try this, open Regedit and go ti the following location,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
look for "ForegroundLockTimeout, right click and select Modif, change the base to Decimal then set the value to 0. Log off and back on or reboot for the change to take affect. Hey Stormy13. Thanks so much. It worked!! | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self Built OS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit CPU Intel i7-860@2.8 Motherboard Asus P7P55D-E-EVO Memory 8GB DDR3 1600 Graphics Card Nvidia Quadro FX380 Sound Card Sound Blaster x-Fi Titanium Monitor(s) Displays Dual Dell2209WA PSU Cooler Master Silent Pro 500w Case Cooler Master 690 Pure Cooling Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus Hard Drives 1 x WD 73GB 10K Drive
2 x WD 1TB Drives |
09-10-2010
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#8 | | windows 7 64 bit home premium |
Help 
Quote: Originally Posted by stormy13 Try this, open Regedit and go ti the following location,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
look for "ForegroundLockTimeout, right click and select Modif, change the base to Decimal then set the value to 0. Log off and back on or reboot for the change to take affect.
I cannot find this on my Win 7 64 bit machine? Any other ideas? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Toshiba OS windows 7 64 bit home premium |
10-01-2010
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Quote: Originally Posted by stormy13 Try this, open Regedit and go ti the following location,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
look for "ForegroundLockTimeout, right click and select Modif, change the base to Decimal then set the value to 0. Log off and back on or reboot for the change to take affect. I had a similar problem where virtually all of my programs opened behind the active window. This fixed it. Thank you! | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit |
10-01-2010
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#10 | | MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit |

Quote: Originally Posted by stormy13 Try this, open Regedit and go ti the following location,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
look for "ForegroundLockTimeout, right click and select Modif, change the base to Decimal then set the value to 0. Log off and back on or reboot for the change to take affect. Interesting.
I saved off the registry key and then altered.
Will see what the pros and cons are.
Any particular reason why the "change the base to decimal" since 0 is 0 whether hex or decimal and the 0x0 format is not needed in this case. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Toshiba Satellite L305D laptop OS MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit CPU AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core QL-64, 2100 Mhz, 2 Cores Motherboard TOSHIBA Portable PC (Socket M2/S1G1) Memory 4.0GB (2x2GB) DDR2 @ 333MHz 5-5-5-15 Graphics Card ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics (Toshiba) Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio Monitor(s) Displays Generic PnP Monitor @ 1280x800 Screen Resolution 1280 x 800 Keyboard standard PS/2 Keyboard Mouse HP Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse Model FHA-3410 Hard Drives 125.03GB Corsair CSSD-V128GB2 ATA Device (IDE)
Depending upon testing, organized as 1,2, or 3 partitions with/without a 100mb system partition at the front. Internet Speed What the local pub, local coffee shop offers. Other Info Optical Drives HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50N ATA Device
Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad
Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter
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