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By: Windows stealing your focus? « UNIX Administratosphere

Windows stealing your focus? « UNIX Administratosphere — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:03:32 +0000

[...] Känngård has a short article where he describes a program he wrote to set the proper setting every time he logs in – to foil [...]

By: Styryx

Styryx — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:42:42 +0000

Maybe you can also prevent any application of changing these values, when you disable himself the right to write in this registry key (it can be done using registry editor, setting key Permissions). Of course, there is then the problem, that you cannot change anything under this key, so you e.g. will not be able to change desktop wallpaper (but in such case, you can re-enable the permission for a while).
The same can be e.g. done for the Run key (no application will be then able to add itself to auto-start with login – quite good defence against viruses).

By: Johan Känngård

Johan Känngård — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:11:20 +0000

@Timwi I haven’t had Windows 2000 for a number of years, is there perhaps another solution on that old platform?

By: Timwi

Timwi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:54:03 +0000

I think you should have mentioned that this doesn’t work in Windows 2000.

By: Stuart Brogden

Stuart Brogden — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:49:41 +0000

Johan – thanks for the kindness of your reply. I just now saw it. I may have in fact made the very error you warn against, as I re-created a batch file just now taking care of that new line trap and it seems to be working.

By: Johan KÃ¤nngÃ¥rd

Johan KÃ¤nngÃ¥rd — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:15:38 +0000

Are you sure you haven’t added a newline after the two /v?

By: Stuart Brogden

Stuart Brogden — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:02:22 +0000

I followed this tip and I see an error message for both lines when the batch file executes.