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Living Room / Re: Applications Stealing Focus...
« on: July 17, 2009, 06:41 PM »
A little late here, but you never know who might be reading...
As noted above, no ironclad Windows XP setting or tweak exists to stop certain applications, because they do not respect the Windows "ForegroundLockTimeout" regkey listed above. For those programs that do comply, constantly resetting ForegroundLockTimeout will work using solely the HKCU regkey.
Adding ForegroundLockTimeout to the HKLM branch is not only ineffectual and superfluous, it disables the ability to set "Prevent applications from stealing focus" with TweakUI (because the HKLM value overrides TweakUI's per-user setting.)
As noted above, no ironclad Windows XP setting or tweak exists to stop certain applications, because they do not respect the Windows "ForegroundLockTimeout" regkey listed above. For those programs that do comply, constantly resetting ForegroundLockTimeout will work using solely the HKCU regkey.
Adding ForegroundLockTimeout to the HKLM branch is not only ineffectual and superfluous, it disables the ability to set "Prevent applications from stealing focus" with TweakUI (because the HKLM value overrides TweakUI's per-user setting.)