Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 1:26 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by swarmer (4 messages posted) Some of my applications won't give up focus when I click on other windows. For example, I may be running Photoshop in a not-maximized window, and any of my clicks off the screen will not register. I can't click on any desktop icons, open any taskbar items, or do anything that needs a click. The only way I can change focus is to minimize photoshop or press alt-tab. This happens on a lot of my applications; it seems to always be the same few, even though they are all unrelated. I installed WindowsXP with an nLite boot disk, and I changed some custom settings around. Maybe I changed something related to how focusing works? Does anyone know anything about this problem? I can't find any resources anywhere about it. Thanks. Responses to this message: re: Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed (Forever: Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 11:28 am) re: Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed (Jacob6601: Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 4:54 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed (swarmer: Sat, May 16, 2009, 1:26 pm) re: Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed (Forever: Sun, May 17, 2009, 11:28 am) re: Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed (swarmer: Sun, May 17, 2009, 12:50 pm) re: Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed (swarmer: Sun, May 17, 2009, 1:08 pm) re: Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed (Jacob6601: Sun, May 17, 2009, 4:54 pm) re: Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed (swarmer: Sun, May 17, 2009, 8:10 pm) re: Applications keep focus until minimized or alt-tabbed (Jacob6601: Sun, May 17, 2009, 9:41 pm) 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 XP Discussion Forum