Windows 10: Fix for Copilot participating in irrelevant and malicious‑like focus stealing windowing...

Copilot Focus Stealing When the Copilot application is minimized and loses its internet connection, it maximizes itself over top of all other windows, forcibly making itself the active window, and all just to display the completely useless message, "It's not you, it's me!"This behavior is disruptive, as most end-users are likely not immediately concerned about a temporary loss of internet connection, but despite this, the program interrupts the end-user's workflow by preventing access to any prior chat results, prioritizing itself as the most important program currently opened on the device, a

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None of the methods to disable Copilot work, can't even hide it

I suggest you post your question in the tutorial thread to find out if Brink or the other tutorial participants can help you Enable or Disable Copilot - TenForumsTutorials Best of luck, Denis

 

mstsc.exe stealing focus

Hello.

I have a problem on my Windows 11 PC. Whenever I do anything on my PC, a program called mstsc.exe steals focus of my opened window. This happens every few minutes. The program is located in C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe. I used this program: https://www.happydroid.com/focus to discover that this process is causing the issue and steals my foreground window focus.

How can I fix it?

Thank you.

 

Implement OS mechanism to prevent apps from stealing focus ever

This is a major security breach.

Very typical use-case scenario:

You'll be typing a password into a secure application, say vpn client, then some other app like skype steals focus on startup and now your password is completely visible to somebody walking behind you, or in the worse case, could actually send your password
to somebody.

This can also be taken advantage of to explicitly create an app that steals focus and phishes for passwords.

I've seen the Microsoft position that its up to the offending app not to steal focus. This is NOT acceptable response. The onus needs to be on the OS to stop this malicious behavior from happening in the first place.

I also don't understand the argument that if somebody started an app, they would expect that to take focus and would be confused if it didn't after starting to do something else....

That would be like sending somebody a text, and while waiting for a response you give somebody a call, and when that first person replies to your text it hangs up your phone call.

Ridiculous this hasn't been fixed in 15 years since its been reported.