Your worship of Gates and Ballmer, as well as membership on the MSFT Defense Force is well known and established, but at a minimum you could at least provide something constructive for once, rather than making the very type of post I've watched you moderate without batting an eye, if it was against Your Precious. You overreacted clearly, when it was pointed out to you that your claims were unfounded. It was a comment without malice or vitriol dude, from someone who I'd bet knows more about Windows than you will ever learn.
I'm quite familiar with the concept and nature of virtual memory. I'm also familiar with its lack of relevance to the issue: reported usage was well in excess of what it should be after the first boot following a clean, default install. Were it not consistent across all installs, I'd agree that an issue with install is likely. That it is consistent indicates that the problem is in-built or maybe it just doesn't like the hardware combination on that machine , not that the specific EVENT of installing failed in some way that time.
By all means, cite and effectively refute the alleged bullshit. The issues with the registry hack occurred and were observed, they were not bullshit. Up to the point of the referenced post, I'd made every effort NOT to turn this into an OS war, but simply trying to get a solution to an annoying aspect of windows behaviour.
The assertion that the claims were unfounded was similarly without basis in fact. A possibility was put forth, nothing more, nothing less. Nothing was refuted. If the problems were my personal problems, then the problem was that I installed Windows at all, as the issue is , in fact, systemic with Windows 7 on that system both when it had 2GB of RAM and after I upgraded to 4GB, and when it had a GTX and when I upgraded to a GTX; though the video card is almost certainly irrelevant to any of the issues at hand.
As to overreaction to a comment "without malice or vitriol," I must disagree. It was a baseless comment that even lacked clarity as to what it referred to. It was the very definition of a troll. The fact that it was a moderator with a strong pro-Microsoft, pro-Windows history, trolling in reference to a hopeful comment about recent increases in Linux support, merely exacerbated the issue. I was hoping you'd read the linked wiki but the short version is if you're looking at some metric and thinking Windows is chewing up 2GB of RAM and that is therefore unavailable to your applications you're reading that metric wrong.
I wish memory management in Windows was that simple. Edit: I also get you're pissed, but I was using Risc OS years ago and loved being able to right-click drag windows around without bringing them to top, I was hoping someone would post a cool utility that did the same. If you want to play fantasy Windows ragequit "when they make all the games for Linux" lol we have an entire freaking forum for that. Go post there.
It'll make a nice change from endless threads about how great the iPad is. Quote: I was hoping someone would post a cool utility that did the same. It looks like it has a seperate checkbox for bringing windows into the foreground or not. I have no Vista or 7 machine to test it on myself.
I want that. I realise I should prolly get off my arse and do it myself with Windows hooks, but coding in C's kind of depressing. I actually hear good things about the C cross-compiling tools for Python i'm an ammature when it comes to programming, but i'm loving python. Haven't had a chance to try the linked app, which is why i hadn't commented on it yet.
As to virtual memory, I understand what you're saying, but it's immaterial to the issue: the OS shouldn't be sucking up those kinds of resources in the first place, nor should its minimum let alone minimum recommended specs be so high. As to linux, you'd be amazed. Even now, the vast majority run fine in WINE, the handful that don't are why i bought a windows license and have it on the gaming machine.
I'm a realist, i know it won't happen overnight, but linux support is increasing, and the rise of UNIX MacOS and Linux android as favored platforms is a good sign. Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot with Win8 can only help those of us that won't away from them completely.
In any case, let's try to get this topic back on track after the moderator derailed it. Anyone with first hand experience using that x-window tool able to comment on it?
Not sure when i'll have a chance to muck about with it myself craziness with work and uni. How can I reproduce some of the things you describe? I don't see any of them. Quote: As to nonsense, one would have hoped that a moderator would know that simply calling something nonsense, or stupid, etc.
Either your imagination or some non-Windows software that you chose to install. I know AMD processors are slow, but they're not that slow. Quote: Your worship of Gates and Ballmer, as well as membership on the MSFT Defense Force is well known and established, but at a minimum you could at least provide something constructive for once, rather than making the very type of post I've watched you moderate without batting an eye, if it was against Your Precious.
As they say on Wikipedia, [citation needed]. DrPizza wrote: How can I reproduce some of the things you describe? As stated previously, I used the registry hack mentioned earlier in the thread, with its recommended settings. Tweaks to the timings didn't seem to have any beneficial effects, they would either exacerbate the issues mentioned, or cause such delay before focus was moved that one may as well just click and manually resize everything anyway, defeating the purpose.
Quote: Either your imagination or some non-Windows software that you chose to install. Observed resource usage was not my imagination, and was immediately following a clean install from the stand-alone full install disks for Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit install , legitimately purchased from the BX on Ramstein so it's not a case of a bad ISO being downloaded.
Granted the issue isn't nearly as severe as with Vista, since the Vista service pack they named Windows 7 fixes a lot of the issues with superfetch, it's still excessive, and there was nothing else on the machine at that point that wasn't installed by the Windows install disks themselves. Quote: As they say on Wikipedia, [citation needed]. Then there's something wrong with your installation or something. Quote: Observed resource usage was not my imagination, and was immediately following a clean install from the stand-alone full install disks for Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit install , legitimately purchased from the BX on Ramstein so it's not a case of a bad ISO being downloaded.
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Improve this answer. ArthurChamz ArthurChamz 5 5 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Stephen Rauch 2, 10 10 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. That works beautifully, better than anything else I've tried. Just save this in a. You can even add it in Task Scheduler to start at boot. Requires you to log out and back in. Perhaps if I'd done a restart it would have reverted, although enabling it was instant.
This option also makes windows auto-raise, but the registry modifications stop this behaviour. However, that does what the name suggests - raises the windows automatically. OP wants it to NOT raise, but still allow focus on a background window.
Following the Q's Winaero instructions setting first hex code to 9F and logging in and out seems to be working okay. Killing explorer. InteropServices; using System. ToUIntPtr , Flags. Matthijs Matthijs 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. Hello, wellcome to superuser. Please, when you make new contributions, try to give some explanations attached to your code.
Although your answer seems correct, it would be better if you explained WHY it works, so if someone wants to make something slightly different they can get an starting point on your answer. Anyway, thank you for sharing your knoweldge with us!
There, I've fleshed out the explanation. I'm glad to be your first upvote, hope a lot more will come :D — DGoiko. I thought this was a nice solution and enabled it, but it caused some undesired side effects with pop-ups Windows UI, Outlook , so I had to disable it. In Linux Mint Cinnamon, there's an option for "focus on mouse hover", even bringing the whole window to the foreground. Show 2 more comments. I don't experience issue 2 when I use WinAero Tweaker.
Volker Volker 3 3 bronze badges. Fix your key; it's Trk not Track; e. I have no idea what the Track one does but changing the Trk one is what works for me. I haven't tested Winaero yet because: I'm not keen on running unknown software from the internet. As I have upgraded all PC's I use from Windows 7 to Windows 10, the Windows 7 "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse" setting has continued to be in effect in Windows 10, even though there seems to be no method of setting this in the Windows 10 GUI.
Using the following workarounds, makes using Windows 10 in Xmouse mode practical: Switching to another window when there are multiple windows available via the app icon in the taskbar: Do NOT click the app icon in the taskbar before trying to select a window. Switching to another virtual desktop or app using the task view button: Click on task view button. Click again and hold button down. Move pointer into required task or virtual desktop.
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