Window in focus changing without clicking.

[Lisa0825]

I am trying to get a donated computer all set up for the animal shelter I volunteer at. One thing that really annoys me about it, which I haven't been able to figure out is that when I have multiple windows open, the focus shifts to other windows without me clicking on them, just if I pass the cursor over it. Thi is particularly annoying since I am doing updates to their website, so I always have multiple windows open. Is there a setting I can change so that I MUST click to change the window in focus? I looked in the mouse properties and Windows help, but couldn't find it. This is an XP computer.

Thanks:-)

[bemildred]

1. It's a setting.

I run Win98se and I know how to fix it there, sort of, but I don't know what you have.

[Lisa0825]

2. Is it a mouse setting or a setting in another part of the system?

Here are the tabs in my mouse settings (Win XP):

[bemildred]

3. I run Win98se and use TweakUI.

Which allows one to set this.

It is handled a number of different ways, things run at startup like DLLs and little programs, there is a registry setting in NT.

I am reluctant to comment further, but suggest you look at what is being run when Windows starts up.

Perhaps someone better aquainted with XP will comment.

[Lisa0825]

5. Looks like TWEAK UI is free, while TWEAK XP is $14.95.

I see other similar programs, like TuneUp. Anyone have any knowledge of them?

edited to add: I also wonder if the MS Intellipoint download might fix this. I can't find a complete list of features for it anywhere.

[bemildred]

6. Well, the thing is, you are in the non-default setting.

Which is that the focus follows the mouse, which is usual in XWindows, but not for Windoze.

So your computer already has something that makes it that way. Something is or has been done to it to make it that way. The question is what?

I would want to figure that out before shelling out for a hack that might or might be able to reverse it, although I can understand that it's very annoying to put up with.

[Lisa0825]

7. But since it is a second-hand 'puter...

and has quite a few programs I don't recognize on it, I can't easily tell which it is. I guess I'll just have to spend some time googling each installed program I don't know abut and see what they do.

[bemildred]

8. Might be a program named "xmouse".

I've also seen it as a .DLL

And then there is this from an NT discussion:

try the following registry setting:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse\ActiveWindowTracking"

and set it to 1 or 2. As I remember it 1 will be "focus-follows-mouse" and 2 will add auto-rise
to that. I'm not certain of the latter.

And I presume zero would turn it off.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1997-11/msg00321.html

[Lisa0825]

9. Thanks! I'm going to go by the shelter and try it tonight.

Thanks:-)

[RoyGBiv]

10. TweakUI ...

FWIW, TweakUI works just fine with XP.

[Lisa0825]

11. Thanks!

I read otherwise, but maybe that was just a ploy to get us to pay for it! :evilgrin:

[hermetic]

4. I have xp and am having the same problem

Drives me crazy. I would love to hear any possible solutions out there, other than dump xp. Yeah, I know, but some of us are stuck with it. :argh:

[Lisa0825]

12. WOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

TWEAKUI for XP did the trick!

Now, when I looked it up at Download.com, I saw TWEAKUI and TWEAKXP, along with mentions in reviews that UI was not for XP< and XP cost $15. But I found this: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui which had a link to microsoft download of TWEAKUI for XP.

The annoying out of control window bumping is GONE!!!!!

Thanks y'all!!! :loveya:

[Lisa0825]

13. So TWEAK does the job, but the changes aren't saved.

I have to re-tweak the x-mouse settings whenever I reboot. It's still better than not being able to do it at all, but I'd like to be able to make the changes permanent. Any ideas?