To know whether an app is something the user wants to take activation or not.

I know they've thought a lot about this problem, but have ultimately punted on trying to do much more about it, because there's no way for the window manager I was a developer on the Windows shell team at Microsoft during the Win7/Win8 time frame. I should go to the offending application by myself if it needs my attention, it should never interrupt me. Just in case I am not being clear, the requirement is that if my application has focus(i.e I am busy with something), then under no circumstances must another application (which may be starting up) come between me and my current task, ever. I have looked around and this is a large problem with some solutions going back to XP but none for windows 8 and 10 so far that I can find. My entire message after the first word is lost since I cant touch type and I was typing into some modal window :(Īm I the only one endlessly annoyed by windows just allowing any old app to steal focus while users are actively interacting with applications? Some other app steals focus after I complete my first word, but I carry on typing. Some apps take longer to start so only finish after I am already typing. Scenario 2: I start typing a message in skype while windows is starting up.

I look up and my production password is on display unhidden to anyone behind me since it is now displayed in a text box of some application which stole focus from a password text box. Scenario 1: I start typing a password into RDC to remote into a production server, and some other application steals focus as I am typing. Is there any way to stop applications from stealing focus?

Windows 10 skype keeps closing itself