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

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
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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

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.

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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.

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

Well Glee, That was the ticket. tweakUI was installed and that block was
X'd. Thanks for your help.
Kenny

"glee" wrote in message
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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