Windows losing focus

[Menglish]

I am having a problem with programs losing focus. I can be in a browser, WORD, Excel or a DOS based program and my Windows XP Pro will lose focus. I can click on the screen and regain focus but myprogram blink right back off or not lose focus for an hour or two. It is not consistent. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mradmin]

If I understand you correctly, a "program losing focus" is when the display gets fuzzy and indistinct, right? If so, I would suspect some hardware problem: your monitor or videpo card or cables. Try to substitute one thing at a time and see if the problem continues or goes away. If I misunderstood your complaint, I'm sorry!...

 

[Sympology]

I'm guessing he means Windows no longer goes on top.

Try turning of your AV / Antispyware and anything that updates automatically and see if it still does it.

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Stu.. 2004

 

[mradmin]

OK, can you tell that I'm a command-line person that doesn't normally work in a "Windows" (or any other kind of gui) environment. Believe it or not, I had never heard of this use of 'focus'. Sorry to not help with the original problem, but it shows how educational this site can be, even for us "old-timers". [I'll be quiet now...]

 

[acewarlock]

Use the CLI and see if it goes out of focus. if it does, it a PC problem not a windows problem.




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[Menglish]

I apoligize for the ambiguity about focus. The current active window is said to have focus. The window I am working in continuously loses focus. When I click somewhere inside the window, it regains focus but quickly loses focus again. After two to three times, it quits switching until I go to some other window and it continues to lose focus again.

Note: This happens even when running DOS based programs.

Thanks for the advice.

Kindest regards,

Millard English

 

[Sympology]

Thought that was what you was on about. Origanlly a MAC / Atari term really, just one of those quirks of language (believe it or not, so is burning CD's!).

Anyway I side track.

Try loading up in safe mode and see if it happens.

If not,
try stopping any programs that update autmatically, such as A/V, A/S, Adobe updater, MS Updates.

Let us know how that goes...



Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004

 

[linney]

Do you use Speech Recognition?

Programs May Start, Quit, Lose, and Gain Focus Randomly

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313176

App Opens With No Focus?
thread779-579509

TweakUI may have a setting to counteract the losing of Focus?
Stop background task dialogs poping up
thread779-827285

 

[Menglish]

Thanks for the tips. I tried removing an adware blocker that does authomatic updates and this appears to have remedied the problem. I worked a full 10 hours straight and it never lost focus or the active window on top.

Thanks again guys,

Millard