Focus Issue

[Rory Becker]

I have been using Vista ultimate x64 now for about a month and I am largely
very happy with it.

I have a very strange and annoying bug/feature however.

Every now and again (frequency varies seconds/minutes/hours), I find that
having switched away from 1 application that I can no longer click the original
application (in the background) to bring it back to main focus.

Somethimes this happens even when there is apparently no application in front
of the app I want to use..

The only way around this is to click the tsakbar button of the desired app
or Alt-Tab back to it.

Can anyone tell me why I might be experiencing this strange side effect?

I am multiposting this to security as it seems an aweful lot like when the
UAC kicks in to ask me a question except that the screen does not change
visually.

Thanks in advance for any information

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Rory

 

[Rory Becker]

Re: Focus Issue

I have now managed to narrow down this very strange "Bug"

It apparently happens consistently with any application which has been elevated
due to it's shortcut having the "Run as Administrator" checkbox ticked in
it's shortcut.

The 2 instances I have noticed so far are VS2005 and IIS

VS2005 has the checkbox ticked and IIs inherently needs to be elevated.

Does this help anyone narrow this down?

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Rory

 

[Rory Becker]

Re: Focus Issue

Strange that no-one else has this problem.

Try the following.

Locate Notepad.exe
Right click it and use it's properties pages to ensure that it launches as
administrator
Launch notepad
Launch calc
Now try to click notepad

I cannot do this and I am forced to click the taskbar item for Notepad in
order to access it.

Doesn't anyone have any ideas?


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Rory