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December 26, 2007 at 08:29 AM
charnobyl

How to find process that is stealing focus

by charnobyl . Updated 13 years ago

Hello Folks,

I have googled my problem and have found multiple threads from people having the same problem as I am. However, everyone keeps posting the same “solution”, which is to use TweakUI and click “prevent applications from stealing focus”. That doesn’t fix the problem.

The problem is this … some background process keeps stealing the focus from the active window, even when there is only 1 window open. The reason I suspect it is a background process that is doing this is that if there happens to be multiple windows open and the active window loses focus, none of the other windows taskbar button will flash letting me know it has stolen the focus.

Is there any way to find out which process is stealing the focus, either with a program or otherwise?

I have a WinXP machine w/ SP2.

Please let me know if you need any further information.

Thx.

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