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Due to my reluctance to purchase Windows 7 I keep getting popups telling me that I might be the victim of software counterfitting. I think I'll stick to that story. The only problem is that the popups keep stealing focus of other windows, particularly annoying if it's full screen.

Is there anything I can do to stop this. You can use TweakUI for XP but it wont work for windows 7.

Any suggestions, except buying the thing.

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What's subjective about this question? – Ben Shelock Jan 6 at 14:30
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It's good enough to run your computer, but not good enough to buy? – Ben M Jan 6 at 16:59

closed as subjective and argumentative by Diago♦ Jan 6 at 14:25
It's impossible to objectively answer this question; questions of this type are too open ended and usually lead to confrontation and argument.

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Buy the bloody thing, it's not expensive, and the full version is slightly better than the betas. Now that's out of the way, my favourite tool, Autohotkey, can do this:

While, 1
{
 WinWait, [Title Of Window Here, or Window Class]
 WinClose
}

That script should auto-close the window. Won't stop it taking focus for a moment, but it should catch it very quickly. I don't believe it's possible to stop windows from taking focus when they open, and if it is, it would probably break much application functionality. Better to find a solution to this particular dialogue (like buying windows 7 :P)

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Buying software makes me feel dirty. But thank you, I'll give it a go. – Ben Shelock Jan 6 at 14:31
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Well, I can honestly say Win7 is worth every penny :) – Phoshi Jan 6 at 14:33
What's the performance like of this? Does autoit spin away cpu cycles in while(true) loops? – BlueNovember Mar 6 at 12:28
@BlueNovember; It would, but "WinWait" literally waits - pauses the whole thread - so there's no performance hit from this particular script. A regular While, 1, would start to eat up CPU, however. – Phoshi Mar 6 at 12:43
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You're asking for help to prevent anti-piracy measures. Sorry, but I don't think anyone is going to provide this for you here.

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At least not in this specific case. However, in the more general case it'd be nice to know how to stop application focus stealing. Several times a day, while typing along, some app will popup and steal focus. Sometimes it means someone gets an IM of what I was trying to code in Netbeans. Sometimes it means I just answered some dialog with who knows what command. VERY irritating! – Brian Knoblauch Jan 6 at 14:17
It's not piracy, it's the beta version. Which was free. – Ben Shelock Jan 6 at 14:18

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