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Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was.

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On 12/10/2024 12:05 PM, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:52:36 +0000, Andy
> Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> 
>> micky wrote:
>>
>>> Sometimes (but not always, go figure) when Eudora fetches email (and
>>> probably when other programs insist on focus), it interrupts what I'm
>>> doing and takes the computer's focus.
>>
>> Sounds like a Eudora issue not Win10, nothing should steal focus all by
>> itself, so I wouldn't hold your hopes too high that Win11 will be any
>> different ... how old is your Eudora version?
> 
> 2006. Aged in oak casks.  I don't mind the stealing focus.  I just don't
> understand why alt-tab doesn't take it back to where it was.
> 
> I would think the OS is completely in charge of saving the previous
> window and directing Alt-tab to the previous window.   Unless Eudora had
> one or two specific lines to go out of Eudora files and change the
> "PreviousWindow" value, and why would a sane programmer do that?

I have the same problem with Excel.  With every other app, I can switch 
between two screens easily by doing Alt-Tab, even with several screens 
open.  But if one of them is Excel, I can alt-tab to the other but then 
going back to the Excel screen the Alt-Tab doesn't always work.

If you do the Alt-Tab and hold down the ALt you can see all your screens 
arranged.  With non Excel screens, the two tabs I'm switching between 
always arrange them selves as the top two screens.  But if the Excel 
screen is 6th or 7th, it stays there, so Alt-Tab just goes back to the 
top two screens.  Sometimes I can shift to the Excel screen by doing 
alt-shift-tab, but alt-tab doesn't usually work.  In contrast, I never 
had this problem with Win 7 where Alt-tab always worked even if one of 
the apps was Excel

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Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was.   micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-12-10 10:43 -0500
  Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was. Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-10 16:52 +0000
    Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-12-10 12:05 -0500
      Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was. Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-10 17:14 +0000
        Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-12-14 03:56 -0500
      Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-12-10 12:49 -0500
        Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-12-14 03:56 -0500
      Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was. Rick <rick@nospam.com> - 2024-12-10 15:52 -0500
        Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-12-14 03:48 -0500
          Re: Focus taken by email program; Alt-tab goes to some 3rd window, instead of where I was. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2024-12-14 23:57 -0500

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