In Windows XP when an application that doesn't currently have the focus wants to attract the user's attention its Taskbar item blinks. Often it blinks 3 times and then stops, which is fine. However, sometimes it just keeps blinking forever. An example of that is Firefox with a new JavaScript confirmation dialog. This is really annoying if I don't want to switch to that application just now - I basically cannot focus on anything else because of this stupid blinking thing distracting me! How do I force all apps to blink only 3 times (or X times) and then stop?
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You can accomplish this with Tweak UI, part of Microsoft's PowerToys for Windows XP. Download and install Tweak UI (or click here for the 64-bit version), and fire it up. Expand the General section, and click on Focus. Check the "Prevent applications from stealing focus" checkbox, and then click on "Flash taskbar button X times" (where you can set the number of times it flashes). The default value is 3 - or at least on my computer it is :) Here's a picture to show you exactly what I mean:
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Start > Run > type REGEDIT and click OK. Navigate to the following key: Create or modify the DWORD value ForegroundFlashCount and set the value to 3. | |||||||||||||||
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