Re: Stealing focus!

It's not just Vista. Try a wide format notebook that every time you close the cover it switches over to external display mode that it thinks is the old squarish format and so decides it is resolution change and all the icons have to move. Thats why I bought 12Ghosts. I am going to have to find out if they have been updated to Vista versions before I am broken down and switch to Vista.

Roger Vicker, CCP

On 3/26/2008 2:06 PM, Mark Allen arranged the binary bits such that:

#2 on my list is when Windoze decides to re-arrange/delete desktop icons.
Most recent was with Vista SP1 install, All the icons I had on my right hand
monitor moved to the left, all icons on the left monitor were re-arranged
into alphabetical order AND the shortcuts/icons on my desktop for FF, Opera
and Netscape got deleted.....



On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:33 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I really really REALLY hate applications that steal focus.

You mean to tell me it's not just Lotus Notes?

If it helps, I have had some success with TweakUI, part of Microsoft's
free
PowerToys. There's a setting that allows you to control whether
applications can steal focus. I'd say it works most of the time.
Inexplicably, seemingly at random, the setting gets reset. I know this
because, all of a sudden, Lotus Notes will steal focus on me, and I'll go
to
check TweakUI and, sure enough, it's been reset.

Like others have expressed, it is unexcusable that something in the popup
can be "activated" without some user-confirmed action. Maybe only a
mouse-click should be able to activate a response. Wouldn't that take
care
of most of the problems?

- Dan