Mouse Window Focus Error
Contents |
Downloads Winamp skins AIMP3 skins About Home > Windows 8.1 > Turn on Xmouse active window tracking (focus follows mouse pointer) feature in Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7 Turn on Xmouse windows 10 focus follows mouse active window tracking (focus follows mouse pointer) feature in Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows
Activate A Window By Hovering Over It With The Mouse Windows 10
7 RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows errors and optimize system performance Ever since Windows 95, the operating system has had a
Windows 10 Mouse Focus
feature called Xmouse where the focus of windows can follow the mouse pointer, meaning, as you move the mouse pointer around, the window which is under the mouse pointer becomes the active window. This feature is
Windows 7 Mouse Focus
disabled by default. Let us see how it can be turned on. Normally to make a window active you have to click on it. The Xmouse feature when turned on activates a window simply by hovering. Depending on what your settings are, it may raise the window, that is, bring the window to the front or it can simply make the window active but keep it in the background. In Windows versions before Windows Vista, Xmouse could windows 10 mouse hover focus be turned on using Microsoft's TweakUI powertoy. How to turn on Xmouse active window tracking in modern versions of Windows In Windows Vista and later versions such as Windows 7, and Windows 8/8.1, Microsoft added a built-in option to turn on Xmouse. Open Control Panel (see how if you don't know). Open Ease of Access Center. Click 'Make the mouse easier to use' Check the option 'Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse' and click OK. Now when you hover over various windows, they will be focused without clicking. They will also get auto raised, meaning the window on which the mouse hovers which be brought to the foreground. How to make windows active but not raise them Windows provides no UI option to not raise windows but still make the focus follow the mouse. However, there is a registry setting to keep Xmouse on but not automatically raise the window. After you configure that, background windows will become active if you hover over them but will stay behind the foreground window. To configure this, First make sure that 'Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse' is turned on from Ease of Access Center -> Make the mouse easier to use. Next, open Registry Editor (see how). Go to this registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desk
Without the Cruft: Windows 10 LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch), Explained Subscribe l l FOLLOW US TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK GET UPDATES BY EMAIL Enter your email below to get exclusive access to our best articles and tips before everybody else. RSS ALL ARTICLES FEATURES ONLY windows 10 focus bug TRIVIA Search How-To Geek Switch Windows by Hovering the Mouse Over a Window in Windows windows 7 focus follows mouse no autoraise 7 or Vista This isn't for everyone, but you can enable a mouse mode in Windows 7 or Vista where just hovering over a window withthe windows 10 window focus problem mouse will switch to that window. In the old days, this used to be called the XWindows mode, and was enabled through TweakUI, but now it's built right into Control Panel for everybody to use. To turn this setting on, just type http://winaero.com/blog/turn-on-xmouse-active-window-tracking-focus-follows-mouse-pointer-feature-in-windows-8-1-windows-8-and-windows-7/ "mouse works" into the search box in the Control Panel, and you should see an item called "Change how your mouse works". In this screen, scroll down and find the checkbox for "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse". That's pretty much it. It'll take a while to get used to the new mode… just remember, the mouse has to be hovered over top of any window to switch focus to it. JOIN THE DISCUSSION Tweet Lowell Heddings, better known online as http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/switch-windows-by-hovering-the-mouse-over-a-window-in-windows-vista/ the How-To Geek, spends all his free time bringing you fresh geekery on a daily basis. You can follow him on Google+ if you'd like. Published 06/9/07 SHOW ARCHIVED READER COMMENTS (53) Comments (53) November 23, 2007 CreepinJesus I knew I'd seen this setting somewhere… This feature is more useful than you'd think - especially when you're using multiple monitors running full-screen programs. February 14, 2008 M.Higham Worked for me! Thanks! May 18, 2008 PY Linux has had this for ages, thank you MS, for making a stable OS with it! August 12, 2008 NG I don't have the option selected to "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse" but it still does it!!! It's driving me nuts. Anyone know how to fix this?? August 13, 2008 PY System restore, checking the box, clicking OK, then unchecking, or just wait - mine did it for a while, then stopped for no apparent reason. Vista! December 9, 2008 Spacegold I must be really dense here. If you have to hover over the top of the window to make this work, why not just click on the title bar and be done with it? March 4, 2009 Perry What if I don't want it to raise the window? I just want it to get focus, not focus and raise it. And is there any way to adjust the delay? Using Windows 7 btw, and the procedure is the same as in Vista. At least for the activation of the Ease
be down. Please try the request again. Your cache administrator is webmaster. Generated Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:17:49 GMT by s_wx1196 (squid/3.5.20)