ForegroundLockTimeout
HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop

Data type Range Default value
REG_DWORD Time in milliseconds 200000

Description
Specifies the time, following user input, during which the system will not allow applications to force themselves into the foreground.

Windows doesn't change things, why would you think that. Type Clean Boot Troubleshooting in Help while online and follow the long and boring instructions. Or try regmon from www.sysinternals.com (edit menu - Log Boot), or set auditing on the key and read in event log what wrote to it.
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"Hans L" <fakeascanbe@evenfakier.com> wrote in message news:koSdnduVJvrOnSfeRVn-qw@adelphia.com...
> Hans L wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I know, I am weird. I want newly opened applications to steal focus.
>> I know I am weird, because tons of articles on the web is about how
>> not to steal focus, no articles on the opposite. It seems to be a
>> cardinal sin to steal focus. Worse than gluttony, equal to pride.
>>
>> Now, having confessed, I expect you to do the same. You are stealing
>> my 0x000000000(0) (in ForegroundLockTimeout) and replacing it with a
>> value that makes my apps not steal focus.
>>
>> First, I thought it was Tweak IU, but I uninstalled it, and my
>> ForegroundLockTimeout value still changes.
>>
>> Admit it, it is you :-)
>>
>> Okay, maybe it is not you, but would you have any idea what in my XP
>> Home Dell Dim XPS T700 (yeah, it is a little old) does change the
>> value of ForegroundLockTimeout?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans L
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> I would like to add that I have now discovered that my setting of
> ForegroundLockTimeout to 0x00000000(0) changes to 0x00002710(10000)
> when I restart the computer. Any idea what type of app or what system
> fuynction might do this?
>
> Hans L