Comments on: Switch Windows by Hovering the Mouse Over a Window in Windows 7 or Vista

By: Jerry_nz

Jerry_nz — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:45:22 +0000

*linux

By: Jerry_nz

Jerry_nz — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:45:03 +0000

In linuc, if you select something like a line of text, it will automatically put that selection in the clipboard so you can middle click and paste it. Is there a way to turn that on in windows vista or 7?

By: Lum

Lum — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:55:12 +0000

Set ‘ActiveWndTrkTimeout’ to 50 rather than 0, it’s instant enough that you wont notice, but slow enough to let you get at the hidden systray icons.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:23:31 +0000

@unpaidbill: The registry tweek worked great — it’s exactly what I was looking for! However, I seem to be getting one negative side effect — I can’t access my hidden toolbar items any longer because the box containing them disappears as soon as I move my mouse to it from the toolbar.

By: Dragon-Fur

Dragon-Fur — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:06:01 +0000

To unpaidbill:

My compliments. Joy abounds. I’m a retired Unix Admin of many years and this feature has been sorely missed on my Vista systems.

The registry fix works – window focus shifts instantly and windows (in focus) do NOT pop to the top of the view.

Thanks!

By: unpaidbill

unpaidbill — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:26:23 +0000

Hey guys, I played with TXMouse and found it to be a poor replacement for the options TweakUI offers. I hate having a delay in focusing windows and I REALLY hate the bring to the front that the Windows 7 checkbox gives you.

For those of you who love to have your mouse cursor autofocus on the window it’s hovering over with NO delay and being able to click anywhere on a window to bring it to the foreground, this is for you!

Step #1:
Open regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Edit UserPreferenceMask value to be 9F 3E 07 80 12 00 00 00
You should only have to modify the first pair.

Step #2:
In the same place in regedit, edit ‘ActiveWndTrkTimeout’, change ‘Base’ to Decimal and put in 0 as the ‘Value Data’

Step #3:
Log off and log back in

Step #4:
Bask in the glory of your instant autofocus that doesn’t bring the window to the foreground, doesnt force you to click on the title bar or frame of a window to bring to front, and most importantly, DOESN’T SUCK or force you to use 3rd party application!!

Hopefully someone else finds this as useful as I did!

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:59:09 +0000

Perry, Thank you for pointing me to TXMouse. I used to be a Unix admin & came to rely on the abilities given by a true XMouse. I have used the TweakUI XMouse for years on XP, but always considered it a partial solution at best because clicking inside a window still brought it to the top even if all I wanted was to copy a small piece of text for paste elsewhere. After going to Vista & using the above control panel solution I felt even more function go missing. I had to disable the Vista “solution” before I got full funtion back, but TXMouse is awesome!

I strongly endose this for anyone who wants real XMouse funtionality!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:09:51 +0000

Awesome! I have to use a PC at my new job and and anything I can do to make it work like my beloved Mac at home is greatly appreciated.

Note to PC retardos like myself: You have to be in “Control Panel Home” and not “Classic View” for the search to return a result.

By: Perry

Perry — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:26:02 +0000

Hi Roger.. I have found a solution for this, at least for my own usage..
Check out this one: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/
It works just like the Xmouse in Linux/Unix with the copy on select text and all that as well. Together with lowering windows by right clicking the toolbar. No way I’m going back to normal Windows(TM) mouse functions..

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:15:27 +0000

I totally agree with Perry. I want to give the window focus only, not raise it. That’s the way XWindows worked in TweakUI. Adjusting the delay would be nice also. Has anyone found a resolution to this?