New window not always on top or active

Win7-32 Pro

When I start a program the window for that program often comes up
below existing open windows rather than on top. Also, the new window
often is not the active window, but has to be selected.

Neither of these things happen all the time, just most of the time.
They also do not both always happen to the same window. I can not
discern any pattern to whether they happens or not.

Any ideas?

-dan z-




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On 2/21/2017 5:50 AM, slate_leeper wrote:
Win7-32 Pro

When I start a program the window for that program often comes up
below existing open windows rather than on top. Also, the new window
often is not the active window, but has to be selected.

Neither of these things happen all the time, just most of the time.
They also do not both always happen to the same window. I can not
discern any pattern to whether they happens or not.

Any ideas?

-dan z-

Some applications force their windows to remain on top of any other
window, even on top of windows launched later. Some of those "on top"
applications have user-settable options to determine whether they remain
on top. Windows Task Manager is one of those applications.

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"slate_leeper" wrote

| When I start a program the window for that program often comes up
| below existing open windows rather than on top. Also, the new window
| often is not the active window, but has to be selected.
|

There are two factors. One is that the program
designer may be customizing behavior. Fr instance,
something that runs in the background may act
passively.
The other
is that your actions will affect it. Back in the Win98
days Microsoft decided that there was too much
lawlessness and stopped allowing programmers to
push their windows to the top because the functionality
was being misused. It's still possible to do with a hack,
but in general it's considered bad manners to force
anything. So if you're doing something when the window
comes up it's likely there may be a flashing panel on
the Taskbar, but the new window won't interrupt you.
You might try opening the progam and not touching
mouse or keyboard for a second or two while the new
window opens.