Recent content by callam

yep, i did my homework, every other focus stealing thread I read on the internet had a different solution...madness...!

i dont have a conhost.exe--i found the problem is unique to everybody, turns out mine was to do with my wireless internet program/interface thing...not that i proved it, but since uninstalling it i dont lose focus anymore.

So it appears my focus stealing is no more--and all it took was a chat with my room mate, ha. I just uninstalled my TP-Link wireless internet interface program thing...even though that's been installed on my computer well before the focus-stealing began. However I am having an equally annoying...

I don't know zvit, you might have to work a little harder for my mother...the credit card's off limits to the entire forum now, sorry folks! Sorry for the late reply, I ended up going out/not being on my computer most of the weekend, thank you Saltgrass for the tips, I have changed update speed...

Ha, ok, thanks buddy. I'll have a go tomorrow. Thanks for the tips!

I tried Process Explorer and another one or two last week and they didn't seem to help, but I'll try it again. Sure, random processes would appear sometimes, I'd get it to highlight it for 5 seconds so I had a chance to see it before going away...even if I did find something...how do you then...

haha thanks buddy, that'd be great!

@joe s Full Malwarebytes scan in safe mode came up with nothing. Also did superantivirus scan...nothing. Thanks for the security concerns though! @cliffordcooley It's not my cursor. But interesting suggestion. I've seriously had 3+ weeks to deal with this, I've got my eyes peeled and I'm...

What's MBAM? I'm getting Malware Bytes when I google it. Sorry for being a noob. Antivirus...nothing, just for the past couple of days. Otherwise I had the usual free (and full) trial of Norton since I got the computer. I'll give it a go, but I reckon it's some obscure program or process trying...

Heyo! After some research, I'm pretty sure my problem is called Focus Stealing, I've looked at a bunch of forums/threads on the internet but each seem to have individual symptoms etc so the fix to someone's problem is not the same fix to someone else's. This is probably going to be a long...