New Windows do not get focus
Hello NoN, yes that is the value I see as well. Just change it to 0 and reboot, then see if that is suitable to your needs.
Basically, Windows 7 is trying to make each application work more nicely together. If the new windows was opened by the active program then it will appear on top and have focus, but if the new window was opened by another process then it will place it below the active window and not have focus. I can understand this logic and have actually always wanted it, eg: if you are typing in Word and the Internet Explorer download just finished, then you type a space. IE download window has just taken focus and your space selects the default behaviour or cancelling the download. With this new behaviour the IE window has appeared below the Word window and is waiting on the Start Bar for attention.
In reality it would appear that many programs spawn other processes that then open windows. In one example I have, the new window appears below the active window, but the active window knows it opened a dialog box and will not do anything until the dialog is answered, but the dialog is not in Start Bar and it is below the active window, so it is a catch-22 situation, can't answer the dialog because you can't get to it.
Once I verify this fix then the next step is to see if I can make it so the new window appears on top but the original active window remains active in the background. That should show the dialog and let you click to select, but still allow something like Word to continue typing without being interrupted.
The logic seems pretty straight forward, it makes you wonder what sort of people are programming at MS to not have this sorted from day one (Windows 3).
Hello NoN, yes that is the value I see as well. Just change it to 0 and reboot, then see if that is suitable to your needs.
Basically, Windows 7 is trying to make each application work more nicely together. If the new windows was opened by the active program then it will appear on top and have focus, but if the new window was opened by another process then it will place it below the active window and not have focus. I can understand this logic and have actually always wanted it, eg: if you are typing in Word and the Internet Explorer download just finished, then you type a space. IE download window has just taken focus and your space selects the default behaviour or cancelling the download. With this new behaviour the IE window has appeared below the Word window and is waiting on the Start Bar for attention.
In reality it would appear that many programs spawn other processes that then open windows. In one example I have, the new window appears below the active window, but the active window knows it opened a dialog box and will not do anything until the dialog is answered, but the dialog is not in Start Bar and it is below the active window, so it is a catch-22 situation, can't answer the dialog because you can't get to it.
Once I verify this fix then the next step is to see if I can make it so the new window appears on top but the original active window remains active in the background. That should show the dialog and let you click to select, but still allow something like Word to continue typing without being interrupted.
The logic seems pretty straight forward, it makes you wonder what sort of people are programming at MS to not have this sorted from day one (Windows 3).
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