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I cannot remember when I activated the mouse action that whenever my mouse hovers over a window, the window becomes my main focus. Last week I googled the cause and removal and it can be removed by removing the tick in the Control Panel > Ease of Access Centre > Change how your mouse works > Make It easier to manage Windows > Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse.
Each time I untick it, it re-ticks itself back. Its done this thrice now. I thought maybe because I have not restarted the PC so I restarted. It still re-ticked itself. I checked here (Superuser) but most were asking about installing it in windows, A few were comparing Windows and Linux but none were talking about taking it off and the computer reinstating it which is what my pc is doing.
So I thought maybe a regedit solution but when I Googled it, this site tells me how to make the situation also have a keyboard focus. Talk about frying pan into fire. Surely it cannot be a local policy hack afterall that is a little too granular to be imposing on others (if it is a local policy hack, then I am happy to try it as long as it works because the control panel solution is not working and this is driving me batty.
MS-Windows focus-follows-mouse Registry hacks
To reiterate - this particular Q has not been asked here prior and if it has, it has not been answered because I can't find it.
So please. registry edit hack or local policy hack.
when exactly does it reappear? right after you un-tick it, or is it re-ticked the next time you open the window? – Albin – 2018-09-24T13:24:07.650
Not sure if the issue occur when you tick a specify object such as in file explorer, or tick every thing such as IE options and control panel. We could go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\mouse to check the tick speed, make sure it is not slow. Or we could reset PC through settings\Update & security\recovery to reset PC, it will not remove personal data. – Joy – 2018-09-26T09:33:03.520
It reappears after closing the form or after restarting the pc. – seanbw – 2018-09-26T15:23:56.163
@Joy it happens whenever the mouse arrow hover over any window. That mindow becomes the focus and you can imagine installing something and the small window suddenly disappears because the mouse has to travel over a browser window which was in the background. Every window becomes the focus so you are constantly chasing your til as to where the right windo is. I have gobne into control panel to untick it but it just does not stick. – seanbw – 2018-09-26T15:27:33.267