Preventing Programs from Stealing Focus

Here's a tip on how to prevent other applications in Windows XP from stealing the focus and popping up in front of other applications.

- Open Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop

- Change the value of the 'ForegroundLockTimeout' key to 00030d40.

Automatically Logon to Windows XP

Are you tired of having to click your user name and type a password to login to Windows XP? Here are a couple of ways you can login automatically.

- Open the Start menu, click 'Run', and type "control userpasswords2".

- Uncheck the checkbox labaled "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer."

OR

You can use Tweak UI, which comes as part of Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP.