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Preventing Accidental Clicks on Chrome Picture-in-Picture Window
I'm encountering an issue while gaming where I inadvertently click on the picture-in-picture window, causing disruptions such as moving the window around, pausing the video, or interfering with ...
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Windows Click to focus without clicking inside
I'd like to implement functionality such that I can click click anywhere on an unfocused window to focus it without triggering anything inside. I'm not talking about hover / focus-follows-mouse.
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Is it possible for Windows to only change focus to another window upon releasing the mouse click?
I would like to know if it is possible for Windows to only change focus upon releasing the mouse click?
For example. I have Chrome full screen, and I download a file. Then I open Windows Explorer and ...
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Windows 10 - Force Window to Always Be in Focus
I have a render utility that when it renders image files it pops up in the background - when it does, I get 1/4 the render speed when it is in the foreground / Active / Focus.
Is there a tool or way ...
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Opened windows don't have focus on Windows 10
When I open a new window by right clicking an application in the task bar such as Visual Studio Code and select a recently opened project, the window does not have focus and the application icon in ...
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Non-maximised window on second screen disappears when moving mouse to second screen
This one's a bit hard to explain, and I haven't found a good way to google it. Pretty much if I have a non-maximised window (say, notepad) open on my right (secondary) screen, sometimes when I move my ...
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windows: how to prevent background programs from stealing focus?
please don't misunderstand me, i do not want a tool to make a selected window always stay on top - there's already plenty of answers on SU for that question (such, as, these).
what i want is that the ...
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Windows 7 Unable to Focus
I've been trying to dig around to see if I can find this issue to no avail. Doing anything in windows 7 to get the focus of a window besides clicking on the window or using Windows+Tab has no effect. ...
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How to track a program that changes the window focus [duplicate]
I have a newly reformatted PC and I just finished installing all the programs, drivers and hardware applications (like samsung magician, Logitech gaming software, etc) that I needed.
I work with 2 ...
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is there a way to disable Windows from switching window focus when I am typing? [duplicate]
Sometimes when I am typing in a notepad, command prompt, webpage, or the file explorer address bar, or even any other place where typing is allowed, it happens that the currently active window loses ...
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Using Alt-Tab moves mouse to centre of newly focused window
I'm getting used to Linux way of giving focus to a window just by hovering over it with the mouse. I've found it's possible to get the same effect in Windows by changing a byte in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...
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Switching to the File-In-Use dialog with the keyboard?
In Windows Vista and up, when you try to move, delete, or rename a file that is locked, Explorer will display a File In Use dialog that lets you Retry or Cancel.
The problem is that this dialog is ...
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Active window (program) unexpectedly loses focus in Windows 7
Something is shifting (stealing) focus from my active window (active program) in my Windows, as I'm currently using it.
I have the same problem as described in this question, with a few exceptions:
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On demand keyboard focus indicator for all monitors?
Is there a way in Windows to indicate on all displays which window|process has the keyboard focus, only on demand by a keyboard shortcut?
(For example with a bigger and centered visual indicator (per ...
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How to make a scheduled window-creating program not steal the focus?
I have written a small console program that checks that all my websites are up and running properly. I use the Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler to run this program automatically once a day.
The ...
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