Webbrowser steals focus

Question

I\'m using webbrowser control in my winforms app (c#). And when it is doing automation things, I\'m losing focus control from the window I was working with. Webbrowsers\' fo

Answer 1

You could try disabling it globally via the SystemParametersInfo api. Use SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT. Setting foreground lockout is a global settings, so you will want to clear this setting when you're done. A more permanent solution is to change HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\ForegroundLockTimeout registry key. See also this discussion on social.msdn (specifically, billb08's answer).