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AppActivate Excel-vba: Excel flashes in taskbar and doesn't activate
In an Excel-vba module:
Option Explicit
Sub Test()
Dim Outlook As Object
Set Outlook = CreateOutlook()
Set Outlook = Nothing
End Sub
Function CreateOutlook() As Object
Dim Outlook As ...
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xwindows / GTK Focus bug
As many have, this bug was first noticed quite a few years back (~2010). This bug is essentially when click one toolbar, then going to another area of the application, the window focus is not being ...
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Allow process to steal focus
I see a lot of information about preventing a process from stealing focus. My question is quite the opposite: how do I ALLOW a process to always steal the focus when it so desires.
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On a ...
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How to stop Windows 7 program from always being on top?
I upgraded Foxit reader to a new version, and now its window always has the focus.
Alt + Tab will not switch now to another window.
The only way to switch away from Foxit reader is to minimise it.
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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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When starting an application (Chrome) in Windows 7/8 it is not always in focus
The last half year (or more?) I have experienced that when I launch an application, it is not always in focus/active. For example I start Chrome several hundred times per day and maybe 30% of the time ...
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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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How can I stop Windows Taskbar from hiding a focused application when I click the app's taskbar item? [duplicate]
Currently, on Windows, if you click an app in the taskbar, it is brought to the front of the desktop.
However, if the app is already at the front it is sent to the back of the desktop, i.e. hidden ...
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Geting focus when rotating mouse wheel
In Ubuntu when you rotate mouse wheel while mouse pointer is in a region (for example you can volume up or down without any click while you rotate mouse on volume icon in system trey), that region ...
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Can background window focus on mouseover be configured to update the Alt+Tab order?
I'm using Windows 7's focus follows cursor model, without raise to front. Unfortunately, the Alt+Tab MRU order isn't updated to reflect the focus change. Here's the behavior (^ indicates focus in Alt+...
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Tabulating between containers
Using Tab, it is possible to change focus between controls. However, in several cases - the most notable for me being Windows compiled help files - they only change focus between controls inside a ...
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Does Win7 software exist that logs the name of windows with focus
I'd like to buy a Windows 7 program that locally logs the name of all windows that get focus, along with the duration of focus. www.realtime-spy.com appears to do the job (and more), but it stores it'...
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Giving focus to a desktop icon using the keyboard
When I start Windows 7 none of the icons on my desktop have focus. I have to click on one of the icons with the mouse to give it focus. Is there a keyboard shortcut to give focus to an icon? (It doesn'...
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How to detect a background program (in Windows 7) which steals active focus automatically?
A background process/program steals focus from my currently active application. It disturbs me a lot when I type in an app or control an app using keyboard or play online flash games in full-screen.
I ...
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Bizarre Windows7 task bar behavior on right-click menu
I've recently installed Windows 7, 64-bit. I'm seeing a strange behavior with the task bar.
When I right click a running program on the task bar, a menu pops up, typically with the program name, "...
