Win2k window focusing problem
Monday, August 26, 2002 at 9:08 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by James DeWitt
(1 messages posted)
When I open a DOS window on my win2k machine, it opens on top of all other windows
but it does not grab focus. The previously focused window still receives all keyboard
input, and the DOS window title bar is not blue, meaning it is not the active window
even though it sits on top of all other windows.
It appears as though the DOS window is not executing an “activate window” command
when it has finished opening. If I use Alt+Tab to switch windows, I see that the
DOS window’s icon is first in the list and the application I used to start it is
the second, just as expected. However, Alt+Tab also shows that the “current” window
is the one from which the DOS windows was started, not the DOS window itself (that
is, the box appears around the 3rd icon in the list, not the second one as it usually
does).
This only appears to happen with DOS based programs, not Windows based programs.
It does not happen 100% of the time, but about 80 - 90% of the time – 10% of the
time the DOS window opens and grabs focus as it is supposed to.
Someone advised me that the Intellimouse driver caused this kind of problem, so I
disconnected my Intellimouse and am using a different one. Now the problem occurs
about 25 percent of the time, which is a marked improvement, but I would love to
figure out how to make it work correctly all the time, like it used to on my old
win2k machine.
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