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Strange behaviour where applications/programs in VM want to grab focus all the time.

Hi,

This may be hard to explain, so here it goes:

I've got Workstation installed on an XP host. I've then installed an XP based VM. When using that VM in fullscreen mode, the first program I start up (say wordpad for example) will keep jumping back into focus should I open any other program ... it is as though the system constantly wants the first application launched to have focus. This only only happens in fullscreen mode.

When I am talking 'focus', I am making a common programming reference where the application window in question gets pushed to the front/top of the stack, so that it is visible over the other programs that are open at the time.

This does not happen in a Win2k VM I have installed on the same host machine.

Any ideas?

Stefan

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