Internet Explorer idiotsyncrasy

nosralr · #1 May 13th, 2006, 04:51 AM

I greatly disklike one thing about IE. When I have a few windows open and working in each, IE will always pop up when it is finished it's webpage download. For example, while a webpage is being loaded I slip over to MS Word and coninue my work there. I am in the middle of typing something when bang, up pops IE, on it's own wishes, and interupts what I was just doing in Word, only becuase it has finished doing what it was supposed to do and now wants my immediate attention. This does not happen to all websites, but only a certain few. Gmail is one of them.

Is there a setting for this so that IE can just sit there and wait until I desire to return to it?

Thanks.

Pancake · #2 May 13th, 2006, 05:01 AM

Go to Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/ and untick "Notify when download completes" Apply and OK

nosralr · #3 May 13th, 2006, 05:34 AM

Wonderful. Thanks.

nosralr · #4 May 27th, 2006, 02:08 PM

I followed your instructions above but this problem still happens on websites like gmail.com and download.com where they continue to pop up in my face when they are finished loading the page and disturb what I am currently doing in another page. Any more help or ideas? Thanks.

**Miz** · #5 May 27th, 2006, 04:49 PM

What IE is doing is "stealing focus."

Tweak UI (download link is about halfway down the page on the right-hand side) has the ability to stop it.

Once TweakUI is installed, open it, click on General in the left-hand pane and then on Focus. In the right-hand pane, check "Prevent applications from stealing focus," click OK.

See if that brings IE under control.