Copy Paste dialog not displayed in the foreground or as the focus window

Anonymous
2014-02-03T14:36:54+00:00

every time I copy or paste & the dialog needs me to answer an overwrite, etc... the focus of the window doesn't come to the foreground of all the open windows.

VERY annoying.

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Anonymous
2015-06-01T23:05:14+00:00

Sounds like its the graphics card driver causing the issue. This isn't the expected behavior in windows. Graphics cards and shell programs can cause this issue.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-08T05:34:04+00:00

    Hope this method solves your problem

    1. In Windows 8.1 , go to start menu icon
    2. Right click on the icon
    3. Select 'Command Prompt (Admin)

    (Other Windows users can open command prompt as admin from 'Run' menu by entering ' cmd.exe ' )

    (Make sure it is given administrator privileges)

    1. Enter sfc /scannow ( make sure there is a gap between sfc and / )
    2. Wait for it to complete scan. It will take some time to get completed
    3. Restart the device if not automatically triggered by program
    4. Check it for errors again, if it still exists the whole steps can be considered after you ' Safe Boot ' Windows again

    Good luck.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-15T22:03:25+00:00

    Thanks Wheeler!

    I run Windows 10 and setting "Windows Explorer NOT to Launch folder windows in a separate process" fixed it for me.

    I use NVidia GForce GTX 770 cards and the latest driver (version 355.82) but this was clearly not a driver issue for me. The simple explorer setting was all that was required to fix it.

    Cheers!

    /TheCat

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-26T12:44:20+00:00

    Graphics card drivers, network drivers, keyboards and so on all are third party drivers. That is why you would need to disable virus software and do a clean hoot to disable most third party stuff.next you would do safe mode to remove the rest.

    Shell programs can still manipulate the system files as well as virus software so they would need to be removed and the system would need to be repaired using dism.

    I have worked on thousands of windows 8 computers and never seen this issue once so I can't imagine I am just lucky and missed it. If it were windows it would be more wide spread to millions.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-26T08:12:42+00:00

    As has been mentioned previously in this thread, this is not just a  third party application issue.  As DA has suggested, third party apps may also cause this problem, but

    it happens when no new application has been started or become active due to some event.  

    The context is simply that you have multiple windows open (could be multiple explorer windows even) and you perform a file copy where a pop up is triggered by the copy action (e.g. to OK a file overwrite).

    The pop up remains obscured rather than displaying in front of all other windows, which is the expected behavior and trips many of us up.

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