Windows 7: Mouse Hover Makes Window Active - Enable

andythecurefan · 07 May 2009

Option #1 seems the simplest, why would people even bother with Option #3?

Thanks for the tutorial, just tried it out and now I know what you mean about "hovering makes window active".

skzap · 07 May 2009

option 3 rocks

great job

gabeforprez · 07 May 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by andythecurefan

Option #1 seems the simplest, why would people even bother with Option #3?

so that you can type and scroll in a window that is not in the foreground.
option 1 brings the windows forward, while option 3 does not.
its convenient that way, but you have to be aware of where your mouse is on the screen.

Quote: Originally Posted by skzap

option 3 rocks

great job

thanks skzap.
I wanted to make a .reg file so that you didn't have to edit the registry if you didn't want to, but i don't know how lol.

can anyone help me to that end?
then there can be an Undo .reg file as well

[which reminds me, I didn't make a backup of those registry values lol. can someone provide the original values?]

Mark · 07 May 2009

Here you go, they are both in Reg files. By the way I really like option 3, it now works just how I always thought it should, good job.

Hover window select.reg

Default Windows hover.reg

I edited the files to include only the changes from gabeforprez's initial post, and they are exactly as he mentions.

The default restores the default values to those 2 keys as they normally appear in Windows, and the Hover changes the values of those two keys only to the values suggested by gabe. -johnlgalt

skzap · 07 May 2009

in regedit you have an export option, then open the created file with notepad and remove the useless lines.

I don't have the original either.

The delay time is in millisec? I need to change it, 0 millisecs causes some minor annoyances here

gabeforprez · 07 May 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr GRiM

Here you go, they are both in Reg files. By the way I really like option 3, it now works just how I always thought it should, good job.

Attachment 10005

Attachment 10006

Yes! Exactly!
thank you a bunch Mr GRiM!

gabeforprez · 07 May 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by skzap

The delay time is in millisec? I need to change it, 0 millisecs causes some minor annoyances here

actually a slight delay would be nice.
knowing that the option is there is nice too.

Nikolay · 07 May 2009

Quote:

Step #2:
Also in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Edit ActiveWndTrkTimeout, change 'Base' to Decimal and put in 0 as the 'Value Data'

When I change the Base to Decimal, it reverts back to hex when I close the window out. I tried the .reg file that grim has provided but it also did not work, yes I did log off.

Edit: Is it supposed to deselect the last open window and when you move the cursor it goes back? I was hoping it would open the window you hover over. Also, why did my wallpaper disappear when I logged back in?

Edit 2: Oohhh I understand now. Sorry, my head wasn't working.

Mark · 07 May 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Nikolay

When I change the Base to Decimal, it reverts back to hex when I close the window out. I tried the .reg file that grim has provided but it also did not work, yes I did log off.

Yeah my value was already set to 0 for some reason, but as far as it changing back, that's what it is meant to do, you are just changing it to decimal to set the value. What was your original value for the delay gabeforprez?

Windows 7: Mouse Hover Makes Window Active - Enable

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