Inactive window on top

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On relatively new Dell machine inactive window stays on the top. It happens
when a new window is loaded from some other (let's say during the
installation of a program) window. Instead of appearing on the top it stays
behind. Sometimes it is confusing, because I'm waiting for a screen with
Next button, but it doesn't appear for a long time (some installations hide
a taskbar, so there is no way to see that the program requires a user
action).
The same behavior of Windows experiences my son. We bought our machines at
the same time from Dell.
Any idea what settings might give this kind of behavior

Thank you
Al
 
Thank you.
I opened the registry and unfortunately there was already 0. So, what did I
have to do? I changed it to default 200000 as topic says, restarted Windows,
reset that value back to 0.
It did not help

Al

Don Varnau said:
Hi,
See:
886217- New program window appears behind all other open windows on
Windows
2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=886217

Note (covered in that article) that TweakUI can make the registry edit, if
you don't wish to do it
manually.

The UNDO file at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm (line #66
right-side) makes the same registry edit.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

vul said:
On relatively new Dell machine inactive window stays on the top. It happens
when a new window is loaded from some other (let's say during the
installation of a program) window. Instead of appearing on the top it stays
behind. Sometimes it is confusing, because I'm waiting for a screen with
Next button, but it doesn't appear for a long time (some installations hide
a taskbar, so there is no way to see that the program requires a user
action).
The same behavior of Windows experiences my son. We bought our machines
at
the same time from Dell.
Any idea what settings might give this kind of behavior

Thank you
Al
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Hi,
Sorry, I don't have any other ideas except...
1. When installing a program there should be no (unnecessary) programs open.
2. A program running in the background may be causing this. Run MSCONFIG>
Startup tab. Research (via google or another search engine)
programs/processes you can't readily identify and uncheck them if they
appear to be unnecessary. Hint: A search for startup cfgwiz (for example)
may give better results than just cfgwiz.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]
 
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