How to prevent Adobe software stealing focus in Windows 10? - LOCKED

Back in the old days, there was a registry key you could adjust (in WinXP, no later versions I think) that could prevent focus stealing. In general, it's up to the app developers. So I would suggest that you-all frustrated people go and start support cases about it. You could file bug report/feature request as well, but I think that dozens of support cases are more likely to lead to revisions in code than hundreds of bug reports.

My solution is to change my own workflow:

1) Wake up computer

2) Start CC apps

3) Make coffee

4) Begin work

I chose this workflow because not even StackOverflow or SuperUser could develop solutions that would fix this annoyance. Some clever developer figured out how to get every single Windows process to load a custom DLL that would prevent focus stealing at large. However, I avoid tools like that in my production partition; I don't want the OS install I use to make money to have something labeled "alpha version, for testing use only" wedged into it.

Lastly, in an answer reminiscent of what I told people trying to use Linux on the desktop 10+ years ago, you might want to try other window managers. I've not tried 'em, but Actual Tools' Actual Window Manager has a setting that will prevent focus stealing. You may need something like that to get what you want.

Same thing happening here.

CC 2015.3, Windows 8.1

Photoshop

>Launch Photoshop file

>Alt-tab back to my email.

>Start typing a reply

>PHOTOSHOP!!! (would you like to link these fonts?)

>Alt-tab all the way back to email and continue where photoshop interrupted.

After Effects

>Be in Photoshop with a long render going in AE in the background

>Do detail work, spend 11 minutes carefully drawing a selection marqee around some object.

>Brain sends instruction to hand to click on the final spot to close marquee loop

>AFTER EFFECTS RENDER FINISHED.

>finish clicking motion in After Effects

>Go back to Photoshop and redraw entire loop.

Pre-CC 2015.3 didn't do this.

I also have this problem and it is very frustrating. Earlier versions did not do this. Please fix it!!!

Also agree - highly annoying. Once is fine, when the window first opens. I alt-tab back to what I was doing while the app loads. But it steals focus at least 3 times during load, and there's really NO need for that.

After the initial focus, it's annoying and unneccessary. This happens in both LR and PS (CC and stand-alone installs).

We need way more detail than that.

What version of Adobe apps? A screen grab of what’s happening would help, too.