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Prevent application from stealing focus

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by esrfalco

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Particularly in Explorer, but also with other applications, if one window has activity it will immediately jump to the foreground. This is annoying, since I have several open windows at once, and I want to decide in what order I view them. How can Iprevent a window from jumping in front on its own?

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by b_pope

have you checked the settings of the program thats doing this.
a lot of times theres a check box within settings that says "always on top" or "display on top" something to that effect.
if you find it just uncheck it.

by esrfalco

That feature allows a window to stay on top all the time. My problem is with windows who are in the background and then pop in front on their own, because some activity has taken place (e.g., automatic page refresh).

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