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Brother scanner steals focus with every page
I have an MFC-8860DN from Brother. It has an auto document feeder. Whenever I scan multiple pages, the process completely automatic. When I first purchased the printer/scanner, I was still using XP.
With XP, every time the next page was sucked in, the twain driver would pop up a progress bar showing the scan progress - with a huge "CANCEL" button in the middle. Of course, as you're typing in another application, and the focus jumps to that dialog box, if you hit the space bar, the entire scan job is gone - POOF!
With XP, the TweakUI tool had the capability to "prevent applications from stealing focus" option - and it worked great. Fast forward to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 - same printer/scanner, latest Brother drivers - and the same issue.
I've searched everywhere on how to hack the registry, or install a TweakUI equivalent application (since it no longer works with W7) - but I can't find ANYTHING useful. Supposedly Microsoft has eliminated the registry entry that controlled this issue - and putting it back in does nothing.
I'm so frustrated because this nice, super-fast, multi-tasking OS forces me to sit idly by as I wait for my scans complete.
Does anyone know how to get Windows 7 to respect the focus stealing issue?
I've written to Brother (back when this issue initially happened on XP - it was their suggestion to use TweakUI)...