Prevent Other Windows From Popping Up and Stealing Focus

Posted on Nov 19, 2007 under Registry Hacks |

Stop other applications from placing a popup window in your way while working. This setting will prevent this from happening.

1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.

2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Control Panel
then Desktop

3. Change the DWORD value for ForegroundLockTimeout to 00030d40

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