Mark Villa wrote:
I am absolutely tired of not have control over my windows.
The default behavior is the exact opposite of the green screen.
Does anybody know what setting will prevent an opening window or an
"becoming active" window from taking context?
for example, when you open gmail and are typing in a word document, it
shifts windows on you.

If you get the TweakUI powertoy from Micro$oft, there is an option in
the General / Focus section "prevent applications from stealing focus".

david
(who's wife just sent him a IM while typing this message and it stole focus)

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