Windows 11 Focus keeps getting pulled away from active window

Question

Hello there, about every 5-10 seconds the focus gets pulled away from my active window and it's super annoying. The active window dims a bit before coming back and my question is how do I stop/prevent this?

Answer 1

Hello there,

Look at the Startup tab of msconfig program and see if you can see any unwanted programs here .

Try to use Process Monitor from Sysinternals package to trace the process that might cause the issue .

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file

system, Registry and process/thread activity. You can get the tool from here

https://docs.microsoft.com/enus/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log

system activity to the Windows event log.You can get the tool from here

https://docs.microsoft.com/enus/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon

Hope this resolves your Query !!

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Answer 2

I had a similar issue with this, on Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview, v 23493.1000.

I installed the Win11 preview because I wanted to disable Taskbar Window Grouping.
Turns out, in Windows 11, clicking (a pinned) window on the Taskbar several times, now toggles between the window being visible or sent to the background.

In my case, this annoyed me every time when an old version of an application (WinSCP 5) would pop up an alert Msgbox from its own application, which I would assume included code to set focus to that popup box.

Windows 11 would interpret that application as receiving another setfocus event, and thereby actually sent the whole application to back, effectively pulling the focus "away" from the app, and ended up showing the app I had open prior to my app.

In my case, updating WinSCP to version 6 (which included Windows 11 flat style graphics) seemed to fix the issue... for this app...