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Old November 15th 17, 08:25 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul[_32_]
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Mayayana wrote:
"Paul" wrote

| It says here the "focus follows mouse" is an Ease Of Access
| tick box.
|
Well, it was a good guess, but it doesn't seem
to work. Reading online it looks like this may be a bug.
One place suggests adjusting ActiveWndTrkTimeout
in the Registry. I did that, setting it to 20 seconds.
No luck. In any case, I should need to adjust the
time it takes for mouse to grab focus if I haven't
enabled that functionality in the first place.
Maybe I have a faulty mouse pad, but it seems to be
a Windows problem. I have to be careful to stop the
mouse only on neutral areas. Otherwise I'm likely
to inadvertently click a button, open a file, or
change a setting.



According to this, there are two behaviors possible.
The GUI X-Mouse option, brings the window to the front.
But attacking it from the Registry, allows a window
to stay behind, yet accept keyboard input. So it's
got the focus, but without being raised. That's the
registry stuff in Option Three.

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ve-enable.html

I don't know what else to do to fix this, as I can't
imagine fiddling with mice, deleting a mouse and having
it re-discovered, would make any difference. It's not
likely to be a per-device setting, and instead just
works off general HID input (any mouse). Since all
plugged-in mice drive the cursor position at the
same time, installing a new mouse should not disturb
the setting.

Since the Registry area they're working in is HKCU

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"ActiveWndTrackTimeout"=dword:00000096
"UserPreferencesMask"=hex:9f,3e,07,80,12,00,00 ,00

you could also try changing accounts and see if the
annoying behavior is gone. It should be a per-profile
behavior, at a guess.

Paul
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