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Philipp Ott, Wien
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Hello!
I got a strange phenomen running wild on 2 PCs. PC#1 is a real PC (XP
up2date, with some Norton AV guard running) and the PC#2 is a virtual
(vmware) PC (xp up2date as well, with AntiVir protected). PC#1 uses remote
desktop to work on PC#2. So far all is fine and pink. However, often it
happens that when people work remote on PC#2 keys get swallowd invisibly and
the foreground window is lost, and then a split-second later reactivated.
For example: you type a sentence in Word and suddenly the blue title bar
starts to flicker blue/gray - and while you continue typing every other
character is lost (due to the fact that Word is no longer the keywindow).
However, there is no other obvious programm running stealing this key, nor
putting itself visibly into the foreground! Also in the taskmanager we find
no culprit application. Just the usual bunch of apps and svchosts and such.
These window-flicker sessions last for a few seconds, usually the people
then start to click multiple times into the Word-title window or so and then
the flickering goes away. It has a high tendency to show up while using the
print dialog of any application (outlook, adobe, word, excel) - then the
print dialog title bar flickers blue/gray until again you click forcefully
with the mouse several times into it.
We are at a complete loss as to which application or program this could be.
There is nothing extraordinary installed on boths PC, other than Office 2K3,
Adobe Acrobat, AntiVir or Norten, and (most recent) HP 2015n printer drivers.
Windows Add/Remove Software lists just these among quazillions plus Windows
Updates. An extensive Malware or Virus-Scan found nothing on both PCs.
When people just work on PC#1 without being remotely connected to PC#2 no
such keywindow-flickering happens.
How can I find out which application is taking away keywindow from Word (or
any other application)? Wasnt there a Spy++ or so in the MSDN developer
tools? Problem though is it isnt maybe really a nice application to give to a
non-programmer user
Any clues how I can figure this out?
Regards.
Philipp Ott
I got a strange phenomen running wild on 2 PCs. PC#1 is a real PC (XP
up2date, with some Norton AV guard running) and the PC#2 is a virtual
(vmware) PC (xp up2date as well, with AntiVir protected). PC#1 uses remote
desktop to work on PC#2. So far all is fine and pink. However, often it
happens that when people work remote on PC#2 keys get swallowd invisibly and
the foreground window is lost, and then a split-second later reactivated.
For example: you type a sentence in Word and suddenly the blue title bar
starts to flicker blue/gray - and while you continue typing every other
character is lost (due to the fact that Word is no longer the keywindow).
However, there is no other obvious programm running stealing this key, nor
putting itself visibly into the foreground! Also in the taskmanager we find
no culprit application. Just the usual bunch of apps and svchosts and such.
These window-flicker sessions last for a few seconds, usually the people
then start to click multiple times into the Word-title window or so and then
the flickering goes away. It has a high tendency to show up while using the
print dialog of any application (outlook, adobe, word, excel) - then the
print dialog title bar flickers blue/gray until again you click forcefully
with the mouse several times into it.
We are at a complete loss as to which application or program this could be.
There is nothing extraordinary installed on boths PC, other than Office 2K3,
Adobe Acrobat, AntiVir or Norten, and (most recent) HP 2015n printer drivers.
Windows Add/Remove Software lists just these among quazillions plus Windows
Updates. An extensive Malware or Virus-Scan found nothing on both PCs.
When people just work on PC#1 without being remotely connected to PC#2 no
such keywindow-flickering happens.
How can I find out which application is taking away keywindow from Word (or
any other application)? Wasnt there a Spy++ or so in the MSDN developer
tools? Problem though is it isnt maybe really a nice application to give to a
non-programmer user
Any clues how I can figure this out?Regards.
Philipp Ott