Re: Windows always on top when they shouldn't be

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From: Simon Caldwell (simonjcaldwell_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:14:27 +0000

>You don't give enough information for anyone to help. Accordingly, I
>suspect few knew what to suggest. Further, you give conflicting
>information (XP home vs. XP pro) which affects the impression of the
>clarity to which the problem has bee fully described.

OK, sorry :-)

It's XP Home.

And I do know a fair bit about Windows (I'm a software developer), I
just don't always express myself very clearly (I'm a software
developer) ;-)

>Is your problem having windows "always on top" or that when the windows
>"gets focus" it moves to top?
>

It's the former. Normally, when I click on an application (ie it gets
focus), it goes to the top. When I click on another application, that
goes to the top. When the problem shows itself, clicking on the
second application sets focus to it, but leaves the first application
on top of it, hiding the other one.

>For the former, recommendation:
>
>Repost and give details of what applications are doing this. Control of
>Window focus to be "always on top" is controlled by the application not
>the Windows XP. Windows XP does this upon request by the application.
>

The applications that were running when it occurred just now were
Explorer (2 instances), Internet Explorer 6 SP1 (4 instances), Agent
1.93, and MailWasher 2.0.

I'm monitoring the situation to see if I can narrow it down at all.
But I've got exactly the same open at the moment with no problem. And
I never had any difficulties of this sort under W98 or W2K which is
what led me to suspect XP.

I found this post on the subject:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?&selm=Xns943290BBBD3Ctq96%40216.40.30.68
but no replies.

Simon

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