You (or someone else) had to change the default OR you are opeing a
file
that opens inside an application you already have open... Like
double-clicking on a Word file when you have Word already opened and
minimized to the system tray.

Use TweakUI to allow your applications to Steal Focus if that is what
you
want.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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First of all, thank you for the quick "answer." Yes, I trying to open
a file in an application that is already open.

Secondly:
If I double click a file, that means I want it to open, not sit in the
task bar and flash. It's just plain ridiculous - number 3 on my
rapidly growing list of things XP doesn't do that OS X does - that I
have to install a thrid party application to simply open a file in
Windows. I know that this thrid party app probably does something that
is doable in XP alone (in regedit?), but too difficult for most to
handle. I cannot believe that so many people put up with, or settle
for, Window's lack of productivity, everyday.

It seems so simple, you double click the file and it opens. Period.
How hard is that? When I double click a file in OS X, hell OS 7.6
even, the file opens like it's suppsoed to, no matter the status of the
application the file belongs to.

Thanks again,


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Windoze