re: Win2k window focusing problem Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 12:45 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by tom bem (1 messages posted) I have the same problem but with any window. For exampel I can launch notpad and then calc and notepad will have focus or some times just the desktop has focus - this is a very annoying problem that i have yet to get a resolution on - I tried removing the Imouse driver but that made no differance On Monday, August 26, 2002 at 9:08 am, James DeWitt wrote: >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. Written in response to: Win2k window focusing problem (James DeWitt: Monday, August 26, 2002 at 9:08 am) Responses to this message: re: Win2k window focusing problem (Todd: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 8:46 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Win2k window focusing problem (James DeWitt: Mon, Aug 26, 2002, 9:08 am) re: Win2k window focusing problem (tom bem: Tue, Aug 27, 2002, 12:45 pm) re: Win2k window focusing problem (Todd: Wed, May 28, 2003, 8:46 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum