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davehaigh13-Aquamarine
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March 20, 2012
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Win 7 - popup behind Creo & ProE

  • March 20, 2012
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This has been bugging me since I got onto Windows 7. How do you get the popup windows to come to the front. They always seem to popup behind ProE/Creo.

I don't know how many times I've waited for the software to respond when really it was just the stupid window was behind, but it's a bunch!

Is there a way to fix this?

David Haigh
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    davehaigh13-AquamarineAuthor
    13-Aquamarine
    March 20, 2012
    I think I found a solution. There are two registry entries that control this.
    The first controls how many times the tool bar flashes to let you know there is a active window behind other. You will not need this after changing these. The second controls how long the active window waits before it comes to the front. The default is ~3.3 minutes. I think you want this set to zero. I can't imagine why Microsoft even put this in the OS.

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
    "ForegroundFlashCount"=dword:00000000
    "ForegroundLockTimeout"=dword:00000000


    Note The default decimal value for the ForegroundLockTimeout registry entry is set as 200000.

    Restart your computer for these to take affect.

    David Haigh
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