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

Anonymous

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

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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Anonymous

2016-07-19T15:26:04+00:00

You welcome. I never noticed anything wrong with the system after applying this "fix" but if you find anything abnormal, please do share it!
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Anonymous

2016-07-27T08:03:09+00:00

ForegroundLockTimeout wasn't changed to 200000 ms by an application, its default value since Windows 2000.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc957208.aspx
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Anonymous

2016-07-27T20:44:01+00:00

I deleted the existing value and found I was unable to enter the suggested replacement, so I have just closed it and now have the entry (invalid DWORD (32bit) value)

THE COPY AND PASTE DIALOG NOW APPEARS & WORKS WITHOUT FAIL.

I am running Win 10 Pro.
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Anonymous

2016-08-06T09:15:55+00:00

Hello MS,

it is quite something to bypass ui design rules and try to push the fault onto the user. Windows 10 will never be a phone or tablet OS and even on a phone (where no copy files is actually done at all) it is not according to your own ui rules to put a dialog which needs attention in the background. Just not done.

Admit you are wrong, release a patch and move on.
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