You can stop apps stealing focus, use tweakui.exe from Microsoft.com
Complaining gets you everywhere ......
Justin
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Daniel Lancelot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 3:57 PM
>>To: CF-Community
>>Subject: RE: Windows
>>
>>
>>Totally with you here... also annoying when middle of playing a
>>3d game, and
>>windows decides to popup an autoreconnect box...
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: 01 May 2001 15:52
>>To: CF-Community
>>Subject: Windows
>>
>>
>>********************** Macromedia Representative **********************
>><CF_Rant>
>>I really like Windows2k. It's great. But I'm going to go _postal_ if MS
>>doesn't change something in either XP or whatever comes next.
>>
>>I'm a pretty fast typist. So, whenever I'm typing and another
>>program takes
>>focus, I end up losing a few characters since the other program took
>>control.
>>
>>For example, my internet access has been a bit flaky this morning. I was
>>happily typing away in an email when my VPN monitor 'took over'
>>my system to
>>let me know that the connection was dropped.
>>
>>Big freaking deal. WHY (and forgive the caps, but I feel like
>>screaming) in
>>the heck is the dropping of a net connection _so_ important that the
>>operating system takes away control from the program I'm using to
>>pop up an
>>alert box.
>>
>>As far as I'm concerning there is one, and only one message the operation
>>system should bug me about, and that's when the battery is low (of course,
>>only if I'm using a laptop).
>></CF_Rant>
>>
>>Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
>>
>>
>>=======================================================================
>>Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia
>>
>>Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>ICQ UIN : 3679482
>>
>>"My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda
>>
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