Windows 10: How do I stop a game from stealing focus?

I multitask often while waiting for a in between matches in an online game, and I usually wait for sound cues in other games to let me know when a match starts. Marvel Rivals steals focus when a match is found, and when the match results are shown, after multiple animations after the actual game finishes. I don't mind the match found alert, but I get annoyed when the results steal focus too, especially since I don't need to do anything there unless I want to start another match. The game doesn't have any options to disable this feature. Is there any way I can make it so that when I switch wind

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Windows Updater Steals Focus

When playing games via Steam every hour or so the game would mysteriously minimize or at the very least drop out of full screen for a couple of seconds. After a lot of research and debugging I was able to track the problem down to Windows Updater stealing
focus. This is really problematic behavior as it can have very unfortunate consequences in any real-time game. Is there a way to prevent Updater from stealing focus or stop it from running while I'm playing games?

 

What do we need to do to stop applications stealing focus?

Old title: Stop Focus Stealing

What do we need to do to stop applications stealing focus? I often start several applications and while the slower ones are starting I begin working in the one that loads first. Problem is that several applications (including IE) steal focus and I end up
typing in the wrong screen. Or deleting something.

When are MS going to fix it? It's been this way for several versions.

 

SearchUI Stealing Focus

Hi,

I've recently started playing RDR2 but every few minutes SearchUI.exe steals focus from the game. From what I've read, you are unable to uninstall Cortana or rename to stop the process from running. Has anybody had a similar issue and been able to resolve?

Windows Version 1803