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Active Window Changing
Hello, In my daughters room, I have a PII 400mhz computer using Win 98. It
seems to be changing the active window by itself. I'm sure there's a setting to make it stop but it's easier for her to figure out how to screw it up than it is for me to figure out how to fix it. Anyway....Symptoms.... When you open a window that is less than full screen size, that window will stay active until the pointer on the mouse leaves that window. Then the smaller window disappears (goes to the back) and the larger window is now the active window. The only way to get back to the smaller window is to minimize the large, screen-filling window to reveal all the smaller windows. If there are multiple windows open, the active window is the one the pointer rests in (without clicking). Like I said, I'm sure there's a setting for this but i can't find it. We do have a nice new mouse now though. Thanks, Kenny |
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Does she have TweakUI installed? If so, start it: Start Settings Control Panel
TweakUI. Click the Mouse tab. Remove the check from the box for "Activation follows mouse (X-Mouse)", and click OK. If this particular setting is not shown on the Mouse tab of TweakUI, or if TweakUI is not installed, she may alternately have the X-Mouse Power Toy installed, causing the same effect. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Kenneth McClure" wrote in message om... Hello, In my daughters room, I have a PII 400mhz computer using Win 98. It seems to be changing the active window by itself. I'm sure there's a setting to make it stop but it's easier for her to figure out how to screw it up than it is for me to figure out how to fix it. Anyway....Symptoms.... When you open a window that is less than full screen size, that window will stay active until the pointer on the mouse leaves that window. Then the smaller window disappears (goes to the back) and the larger window is now the active window. The only way to get back to the smaller window is to minimize the large, screen-filling window to reveal all the smaller windows. If there are multiple windows open, the active window is the one the pointer rests in (without clicking). Like I said, I'm sure there's a setting for this but i can't find it. We do have a nice new mouse now though. Thanks, Kenny |
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Kenneth McClure wrote:
Hello, In my daughters room, I have a PII 400mhz computer using Win 98. It seems to be changing the active window by itself. I'm sure there's a setting to make it stop but it's easier for her to figure out how to screw it up than it is for me to figure out how to fix it. Anyway....Symptoms.... When you open a window that is less than full screen size, that window will stay active until the pointer on the mouse leaves that window. Then the smaller window disappears (goes to the back) and the larger window is now the active window. The only way to get back to the smaller window is to minimize the large, screen-filling window to reveal all the smaller windows. If there are multiple windows open, the active window is the one the pointer rests in (without clicking). Like I said, I'm sure there's a setting for this but i can't find it. We do have a nice new mouse now though. And I bet it does all sorts of cool things via its options from Control Panel. Like make a window active when the pointer is moved over the title bar. -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.05... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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"dadiOH" wrote in message ...
Kenneth McClure wrote: Hello, In my daughters room, I have a PII 400mhz computer using Win 98. It seems to be changing the active window by itself. I'm sure there's a setting to make it stop but it's easier for her to figure out how to screw it up than it is for me to figure out how to fix it. Anyway....Symptoms.... When you open a window that is less than full screen size, that window will stay active until the pointer on the mouse leaves that window. Then the smaller window disappears (goes to the back) and the larger window is now the active window. The only way to get back to the smaller window is to minimize the large, screen-filling window to reveal all the smaller windows. If there are multiple windows open, the active window is the one the pointer rests in (without clicking). Like I said, I'm sure there's a setting for this but i can't find it. We do have a nice new mouse now though. And I bet it does all sorts of cool things via its options from Control Panel. Like make a window active when the pointer is moved over the title bar. heh-heh...yeah, or that. I skipped right over the part where they said they had a new mouse. It could be in the added options of that mouse software, as you say. :-) -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm |
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Well Glee, That was the ticket. tweakUI was installed and that block was
X'd. Thanks for your help. Kenny "glee" wrote in message ... Does she have TweakUI installed? If so, start it: Start Settings Control Panel TweakUI. Click the Mouse tab. Remove the check from the box for "Activation follows mouse (X-Mouse)", and click OK. If this particular setting is not shown on the Mouse tab of TweakUI, or if TweakUI is not installed, she may alternately have the X-Mouse Power Toy installed, causing the same effect. -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Kenneth McClure" wrote in message om... Hello, In my daughters room, I have a PII 400mhz computer using Win 98. It seems to be changing the active window by itself. I'm sure there's a setting to make it stop but it's easier for her to figure out how to screw it up than it is for me to figure out how to fix it. Anyway....Symptoms.... When you open a window that is less than full screen size, that window will stay active until the pointer on the mouse leaves that window. Then the smaller window disappears (goes to the back) and the larger window is now the active window. The only way to get back to the smaller window is to minimize the large, screen-filling window to reveal all the smaller windows. If there are multiple windows open, the active window is the one the pointer rests in (without clicking). Like I said, I'm sure there's a setting for this but i can't find it. We do have a nice new mouse now though. Thanks, Kenny |
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