Why hovering mouse pointer choose windows?

[Rino]

Hi Everyone,
We're five separate users in our family PC using Win-XP Pro. I don't know why this happen only to me. It happen to all
programs but only to me. Whenever several windows displayed in the monitor screen and if I hover my mouse pointer to the
any deep of cascading windows that windows will immediately come to the front without pressing any button. This process
is sometime good because very quick and less work BUT I preferred the old way of clicking that windows to come to the
front if I really want to. The quick way are sometime erroneously chosen because it followed the mouse pointer swirl or
indication. I did tried Properties and also Internet Options in Control Panel but nothing has cure. Can some one help
me?

Rino

[David Candy]

It's called XMouse. There is no user interface in windows that turns it on or off. It is off unless you turn it on.

Either you mouse software added the ability to turn this on or you used a tweaking program to turn on. Use the same method to turn off.

To turn off by hand
Mouse Settings
This tip specifies whether to use a X-Mouse style interface. An X-Mouse interface (in part) means that windows the mouse is over are active. This has been added to Explorer Options on the Explorer page.

The user preference mask is a hexadecimal representation of bit values. To set use Windows Calculator and the values from the table below.

To use Windows Calculator take the value from UserPreferences and AND it with the value from the table below.

a.. Put the value from the table below into Calculator in Hex mode
b.. Press AND
c.. Take the value from from user preferences (in this sample 000000fd as it's byte order reversed).
d.. If it is set it will return the same value as the table below, if it's not set it will return 0
Action Value in Hex
Turn on x-mouse 1
If on bring window to top 40

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"UserPreferencemask"=hex:fd,00,00,00
;Sets the amount of time the mouse has to be over a window to activate it.
;In milliseconds in byte order reversed (00000bb8 = 3000 ms or 3 seconds).
;Default is 0 seconds and the key does not appear by default.
"ActiveWndTrkTimeout"=hex:b8,0b,00,00


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"Rino" > wrote in message ...
> Hi Everyone,
> We're five separate users in our family PC using Win-XP Pro. I don't know why this happen only to me. It happen to all
> programs but only to me. Whenever several windows displayed in the monitor screen and if I hover my mouse pointer to the
> any deep of cascading windows that windows will immediately come to the front without pressing any button. This process
> is sometime good because very quick and less work BUT I preferred the old way of clicking that windows to come to the
> front if I really want to. The quick way are sometime erroneously chosen because it followed the mouse pointer swirl or
> indication. I did tried Properties and also Internet Options in Control Panel but nothing has cure. Can some one help
> me?
>
> Rino
>
>