Windows 10: Windows 10 opening pop-up window in background behind main window, failed to focus on pop-up

Hi,


Windows 10 introduced the known and well distributed issue with pop-up dialog windows, which are not focused on top of all other windows, but rather they stay in background, hidden behind the active window.


So many times customers call me: "I cannot access some web page" or "My certificate is not working"...

When I connect to end-user remotely, I see, that users simply does not notice task bar with one additional icon, or in some cases, user has taskbar minimized and they are really not aware of some pop-up window in background.


Is this specific to Slovenian Windows 10 version?

Or even worse, specific to a dozen of users which somehow all call me for help?

Or why does MS not fix this issue in all those years?


Se for example this Credentials pop-up:





I need to click on Tackbar icon to bring pop-up to the front:



:)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows Updates failed to instal

I just did step one and they have just all installed.... thank you so much.... it was quite frustrating having that update window pop up every 5 minutes and failing to instal every time

Thanks mate

 

Weird CMD windows popping up

Process Explorer

Leave it running in the background. It will track everything running on the system, but when a process closes Process Explorer highlights it red and leaves it visable for awhile. So when the window pops up, switch over to Process Explorer quickly and see what is red before it disappears.