Guest Philipp Ott, Wien Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 Hello! I got a strange phenomen running wild on 2 PCs. PC#1 is a real PC (XP up2date, with some Norton AV guard running) and the PC#2 is a virtual (vmware) PC (xp up2date as well, with AntiVir protected). PC#1 uses remote desktop to work on PC#2. So far all is fine and pink. However, often it happens that when people work remote on PC#2 keys get swallowd invisibly and the foreground window is lost, and then a split-second later reactivated. For example: you type a sentence in Word and suddenly the blue title bar starts to flicker blue/gray - and while you continue typing every other character is lost (due to the fact that Word is no longer the keywindow). However, there is no other obvious programm running stealing this key, nor putting itself visibly into the foreground! Also in the taskmanager we find no culprit application. Just the usual bunch of apps and svchosts and such. These window-flicker sessions last for a few seconds, usually the people then start to click multiple times into the Word-title window or so and then the flickering goes away. It has a high tendency to show up while using the print dialog of any application (outlook, adobe, word, excel) - then the print dialog title bar flickers blue/gray until again you click forcefully with the mouse several times into it. We are at a complete loss as to which application or program this could be. There is nothing extraordinary installed on boths PC, other than Office 2K3, Adobe Acrobat, AntiVir or Norten, and (most recent) HP 2015n printer drivers. Windows Add/Remove Software lists just these among quazillions plus Windows Updates. An extensive Malware or Virus-Scan found nothing on both PCs. When people just work on PC#1 without being remotely connected to PC#2 no such keywindow-flickering happens. How can I find out which application is taking away keywindow from Word (or any other application)? Wasnt there a Spy++ or so in the MSDN developer tools? Problem though is it isnt maybe really a nice application to give to a non-programmer user :-) Any clues how I can figure this out? Regards. Philipp Ott
Guest Elmo Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 Re: howto get key window robber/thief? Philipp Ott wrote: > Hello! > > I got a strange phenomenon running wild on 2 PCs. PC#1 is a real PC (XP > up2date, with some Norton AV guard running) and the PC#2 is a virtual > (vmware) PC (xp up2date as well, with AntiVir protected). PC#1 uses remote > desktop to work on PC#2. So far all is fine and pink. However, often it > happens that when people work remote on PC#2 keys get swallowed invisibly and > the foreground window is lost, and then a split-second later reactivated. > > For example: you type a sentence in Word and suddenly the blue title bar > starts to flicker blue/gray - and while you continue typing every other > character is lost (due to the fact that Word is no longer the key window). > However, there is no other obvious program running stealing this key, nor > putting itself visibly into the foreground! Also in the task manager we find > no culprit application. Just the usual bunch of apps and svchosts and such. > > These window-flicker sessions last for a few seconds, usually the people > then start to click multiple times into the Word-title window or so and then > the flickering goes away. It has a high tendency to show up while using the > print dialog of any application (outlook, adobe, word, excel) - then the > print dialog title bar flickers blue/gray until again you click forcefully > with the mouse several times into it. > > We are at a complete loss as to which application or program this could be. > There is nothing extraordinary installed on both PC, other than Office 2K3, > Adobe Acrobat, AntiVir or Norton, and (most recent) HP 2015n printer drivers. > Windows Add/Remove Software lists just these among quazillions plus Windows > Updates. An extensive Malware or Virus-Scan found nothing on both PCs. > > When people just work on PC#1 without being remotely connected to PC#2 no > such keywindow-flickering happens. > > How can I find out which application is taking away keywindow from Word (or > any other application)? Wasn't there a Spy++ or so in the MSDN developer > tools? Problem though is it isn't maybe really a nice application to give to a > non-programmer user :-) Any clues how I can figure this out? > > Regards. > Philipp Ott Maybe this: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm Line 66. (r-h column) Prevent Programs from Stealing Focus -- Joe =o)
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