Focus-stealing. W-T-F?

RSI

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May 22, 2000
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Ok, you must all know, if you've used winbloze for years, that Win95/98 were horrible for focus-stealing. If you were doing something, especially with IE, and were using multiple windows, you know what I'm talking about. Let's say you click on a link, while that's loading you do something in another window. Well, isn't it annoying if you're typing a message/email/whatever, and suddenly Page #1 pops up again? You have to do whatever, or click back, and resume your typing. That's annoying as hell. This however was fixed quite well in Win2K, I discovered. But, suddenly, just this particular time I installed it and IE6, the horrible focus-stealing is back, and it's literally driving me nuts. Why does it do this? And hwy the HELL did it randomly decide to do it, for no reason? I always use the same settings and install things the same way. so why would it happen this time and no other time? Ugh, it makes me sick.

Any ideas?

-RSI