A background process/program steals focus from my currently active application. It disturbs me a lot when I type in an app or control an app using keyboard or play online flash games in full-screen.
I want to remove this program from my PC, but I'm unable to detect it. I've analyzed all processes & scanned for viruses. All things are right from this side.
I don't want to change focus behavior using registry tweak. Please, help me detecting that app..
2 Answers
I used http://www.happydroid.com/focus and left the PC running over night to find the program that was stealing the focus.
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5Works properly and appears to be virus free. At least for now. Now I just have to wait. :-)– inf3rnoOct 30, 2017 at 0:26
The problem has been fixed. At a time of focus stealing, I pressed Alt+F4 and instantly spotted exiting process from Process Explorer.
Note: Windows Process Explorer can be downloaded as part of Windows Sysinternals library.
update: theres's any nice pogramm showing/logging, what process has focus: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/dee98b15-0540-4975-b38d-ce3d2ee87c30/figuring-out-whats-stealing-window-focus
may this helps as well http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsxp/ht/stealingfocus02.htm
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2Gladinet Cloud Drive. It generally maps online accounts at start-up, but at the time of problem, it failed to log in to Windows Live SkyDrive because of password change. It was re-trying again-n-again with focus stealing! Jul 13, 2011 at 22:36
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How did you "spotted exiting process from Process Explorer"? I'm fighting the same problem and I was more than sure, that when you press
Alt+F4
, program is terminated immediately, so you have no chances to open (or even switch to) Task Manager to see, what has just "left" it.– trejderJan 30, 2014 at 10:05 -
3@trejder Use Process Explorer, not Task Manager shipped with Windows. Process Explorer highlights exiting process with Red. Jan 30, 2014 at 10:36
Alt+Space
will bring up the system menu of the focus-stealing application's window, for example.