I'm running XP on my WORK computer. It's an old PC, has been handed from employee to employee over the YEARS, it's got a lot of unfortunately heavy-duty and necessary programs working. Needless to say, it's not the quickest computer around.

I've gotten used to the slow. I multitask like my life depends on it (and my sanity DOES depend on it). I generally have anywhere from two to eight programs running at a time.

My problem is this: When I launch a program (particularly a Office Suite program), I want to go back to what I was doing in another window while I wait it to launch. But the new program ALWAYS tries to become top priority on my monitor. If I'm launching Word and go back to an email window to keep writing my email while I wait for the document to load, I end up typing my email into my document because Word has taken precedence. I have to click back to the original program over and over again while Word continues to launch. It's infuriating.

Is it possible to direct all newly launching programs to open behind all other open windows?No...

This is how Windows works.
Open apps in the order you need to use them.

Or you could go to each app and SET it to "open minimised".....NOTE...not all apps will have this option.If you can find a copy of TweakUI there's a setting to keep apps from stealing focus. That may or may not work when opening new apps.Quote from: patio on May 18, 2011, 01:35:24 PM

No...

This is how Windows works.
Open apps in the order you need to use them.

Or you could go to each app and set it to "open minimised".....NOTE...not all apps will have this option.

If you can find a copy of TweakUI there's a setting to keep apps from stealing focus. That may or may not work when opening new apps.