Focus Issue

I have been using Vista ultimate x64 now for about a month and I am largely
very happy with it.

I have a very strange and annoying bug/feature however.

Every now and again (frequency varies seconds/minutes/hours), I find that
having switched away from 1 application that I can no longer click the original
application (in the background) to bring it back to main focus.

Somethimes this happens even when there is apparently no application in front
of the app I want to use..

The only way around this is to click the tsakbar button of the desired app
or Alt-Tab back to it.

Can anyone tell me why I might be experiencing this strange side effect?

I am multiposting this to security as it seems an aweful lot like when the
UAC kicks in to ask me a question except that the screen does not change
visually.

Thanks in advance for any information

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Rory

I have now managed to narrow down this very strange "Bug"

It apparently happens consistently with any application which has been elevated
due to it's shortcut having the "Run as Administrator" checkbox ticked in
it's shortcut.

The 2 instances I have noticed so far are VS2005 and IIS

VS2005 has the checkbox ticked and IIs inherently needs to be elevated.

Does this help anyone narrow this down?

--
Rory

Strange that no-one else has this problem.

Try the following.

Locate Notepad.exe
Right click it and use it's properties pages to ensure that it launches as
administrator
Launch notepad
Launch calc
Now try to click notepad

I cannot do this and I am forced to click the taskbar item for Notepad in
order to access it.

Doesn't anyone have any ideas?


--
Rory

I most likely have the same problem on Vista 32 and a wired Logitech US
optical mouse

For the last years my system worked fine. A couple of weeks ago -
can't remember any special circumstances - it suddenly happened that
couldn't activate one or more windows with mouse clicks - or drag/resiz
them. It seems the "active state" switches back and forth between tw
windows or "levels" (when there is only the taskbar and the desktop
with each click, somewhat similar to ALT-Tabbing

Opening and closing the task manager temporarily solves the problem

It happens randomly and in random intervals. It happens even right a
start-up so that I cannot click on icons in the quickstart menu

While I e.g. can use the mouse clicks on desktop items, the items i
the taskbar won't react - or vice versa

I run windows with - say - standard applications, my system is alway
up to date, I have no fancy programs/hardware installed other than stuf
from renowned companies as Microsoft, Adobe, Mozzilla, Skype, Logitech
nvidia-Drivers etc. and one or two games. A virus check didn't revea
any problems. While playing a mouse driven game I didn't have problem
so far, only on desktop

I tried closing windows processes, but the 2 or 3 I can close wit
still being able to use the computer seem to have no effect

I'm glad to see I'm not alone, so there might be someone finding th
cause of this. Maybe it was the Vista ServicePack or some other update
who knows

Edit: While the problem persists, navigation with the keyboard i
entirely possible

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gri
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:41:13 +0100, grin wrote:

> I most likely have the same problem on Vista 32 and a wired Logitech USB
> optical mouse.
>
> For the last years my system worked fine. A couple of weeks ago - I
> can't remember any special circumstances - it suddenly happened that I
> couldn't activate one or more windows with mouse clicks - or drag/resize
> them. It seems the "active state" switches back and forth between two
> windows or "levels" (when there is only the taskbar and the desktop)
> with each click, somewhat similar to ALT-Tabbing.
>
> Opening and closing the task manager temporarily solves the problem.
>
> It happens randomly and in random intervals. It happens even right at
> start-up so that I cannot click on icons in the quickstart menu.
>
> While I e.g. can use the mouse clicks on desktop items, the items in
> the taskbar won't react - or vice versa.
>
> I run windows with - say - standard applications, my system is always
> up to date, I have no fancy programs/hardware installed other than stuff
> from renowned companies as Microsoft, Adobe, Mozzilla, Skype, Logitech,
> nvidia-Drivers etc. and one or two games. A virus check didn't reveal
> any problems. While playing a mouse driven game I didn't have problems
> so far, only on desktop.
>
> I tried closing windows processes, but the 2 or 3 I can close with
> still being able to use the computer seem to have no effect.
>
> I'm glad to see I'm not alone, so there might be someone finding the
> cause of this. Maybe it was the Vista ServicePack or some other update,
> who knows.
>
> Edit: While the problem persists, navigation with the keyboard is
> entirely possible.

Here's my dumb question for you: is your mouse battery powered? If so, is
the battery getting weak?

OK, my dumb two questions :-)

It's my only idea.

No, I have another. Try another mouse to find out if the mouse could be
getting sick.

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Gene E. Bloch;1518110 Wrote:
>
> Here's my dumb question for you: is your mouse battery powered? If so
> is
> the battery getting weak?
>
> OK, my dumb two questions :-)
>
> It's my only idea.
>
> No, I have another. Try another mouse to find out if the mouse coul
> be
> getting sick.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
My mouse is USB powered, hence it's wired. No batteries.
And it is working very well, except at the random occasions the abov
mentioned problem kicks in. The mouse buttons themselves work as wel
even then, it's just the windows reaction which is wrong. Very strange

--
gri
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