How do I undo the XP tweak: mouse over.........

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Neil68

Hi,
Does anyone know how do I undo the tweak XP : mouse over function?
Everytime I take the mouse off a window or box it disappears to the
background! It's driving me nuts! I installed Tweak XP and made tsome
changes on a trial version,.However, I didn't buy it and the trial ran
out and now it wont let me make any changes!
Please help!
Neil.
 
Glenda said:
Neil,
I am not sure why you didn't get a response but isn't Tweak UI free?
As far as I know you can get Tweak UI free at:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
possibly it will undo changes made to your system by the trial
software. I hope this helps, I am not familiar with the Tweak XP trial
software
but I am just guessing that you might be able to undo some of the
changes that you made using Tweak UI.
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Yep, I agreee entirely.

Get TweakUI again and use it to undo the changes you made before

I wouldn't delete it as it is a useful program.
 
Tweak UI is free, Tweak XP is not.
He may be able to undo the Tweak XP changes with Tweak UI however.
 
This tip specifies whether to use a X-Mouse style interface. An X-Mouse interface (in part) means that windows the mouse is over are active. This has been added to Explorer Options on the Explorer page.

The user preference mask is a hexadecimal representation of bit values. To set use Windows Calculator and the values from the table below.

To use Windows Calculator take the value from UserPreferences and AND it with the value from the table below.

a.. Put the value from the table below into Calculator in Hex mode
b.. Press AND
c.. Take the value from from user preferences (in this sample 000000fd as it's byte order reversed).
d.. If it is set it will return the same value as the table below, if it's not set it will return 0
Action Value in Hex
Turn on x-mouse 1
If on bring window to top 40

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"UserPreferencemask"=hex:fd,00,00,00
;Sets the amount of time the mouse has to be over a window to activate it.
;In milliseconds in byte order reversed (00000bb8 = 3000 ms or 3 seconds).
;Default is 0 seconds and the key does not appear by default.
"ActiveWndTrkTimeout"=hex:b8,0b,00,00
 
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