|
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Welcome to Windows Vista Forums. Our forum is dedicated to helping you find solutions with any problems, errors or issues you are experiencing with Windows Vista. The Vista forum also covers news and updates and has an extensive Windows Vista tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks. |
| |||||||
 |
| |
04-16-2009
| #1 (permalink) |
| | WLM Steals Focus when New IM Recieved For some reason, when anyone sends an IM to me via WLM on my machine at work, it pops-up and steals focus. This is annoying - especially if I'm in a conversation with someone else. It interrupts. Anyone else notice this? I thought the old behavior was to flash the item in the Start bar. I can get that behavior by setting my status to "Busy". Am I overlooking some obvious setting here? |
My System Specs |
|
04-16-2009
| #2 (permalink) |
| | Re: WLM Steals Focus when New IM Recieved Greetings, Messenger has no setting for this and it behaves as it always has. However, there are two exceptions to this. The first is that you may have installed some sort of Messenger Plus script or some other third-party tool which is doing this for you as a feature. If this is the case, then you'll need to locate it and disable it. Secondly, if you or your contact are in the Appear Offline status, then a good percentage of messages sent will be sent as offline messages, which do steal the focus away. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "Neb Okla" <n_okla@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:C525E1B8-ED8F-4592-92B3-CCA663CDE8CC@xxxxxx Quote: > For some reason, when anyone sends an IM to me via WLM on my machine at work, it pops-up > and steals focus. > > This is annoying - especially if I'm in a conversation with someone else. It interrupts. > > Anyone else notice this? > > I thought the old behavior was to flash the item in the Start bar. I can get that behavior > by setting my status to "Busy". > > Am I overlooking some obvious setting here? |
| My System Specs |
|
04-27-2009
| #3 (permalink) |
| | Re: WLM Steals Focus when New IM Recieved How can we prevent offline messages to steal focus? "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > Greetings, > > Messenger has no setting for this and it behaves as it always has. > > However, there are two exceptions to this. The first is that you may have installed some > sort of Messenger Plus script or some other third-party tool which is doing this for you as a > feature. If this is the case, then you'll need to locate it and disable it. > > Secondly, if you or your contact are in the Appear Offline status, then a good percentage of > messages sent will be sent as offline messages, which do steal the focus away. > > -- > Jonathan Kay > Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger > MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger > MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com > Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com > (c) 2009 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation > -- > > "Neb Okla" <n_okla@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:C525E1B8-ED8F-4592-92B3-CCA663CDE8CC@xxxxxx Quote: > > For some reason, when anyone sends an IM to me via WLM on my machine at work, it pops-up > > and steals focus. > > > > This is annoying - especially if I'm in a conversation with someone else. It interrupts. > > > > Anyone else notice this? > > > > I thought the old behavior was to flash the item in the Start bar. I can get that behavior > > by setting my status to "Busy". > > > > Am I overlooking some obvious setting here? > > |
| My System Specs |
|
| Thread Tools | |
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Forum | |||
| September 2008: Chrome steals from IE, Firefox, and Opera | Vista News | |||
| Outlook steals some of my Microsoft Mail... | Vista mail | |||
| Vista steals drive space? | Vista General | |||
| Media center steals mouse? | Vista General | |||
