Now, I have doen a search on this and have come up with nothing, but maybe I am using the wrong search terms, just dont know.
When EAC is runninig, a lot of the time it keeps stealing the focus back to itself, making the PC un usable for anything else. In the time it takes to click another window (Word, Excel,Winamp ...whatever) and get your hand off the mouse and back to the keyboard, EAC has popped up again, it will not stay minimised/in the background. This action does not occur when EAC is requiring an input, and the taskbar is orange and flashing, it does it even when EAC is running and not requiring an input

As I write this now, I have two instances of EAC running and no problems at all. Last night, it was impossible to use the machine. Still unable to get it to reproduce. Have not been able to determine what steps to take to cause this action.




This the setup:
Win XP SP2
Latest EAC and FLAC
Generic Dell 2.4Ghz PC...unsure of internals...the only machine I have never bothered to build up myself or tinker with.
Firewire out from PCI card direct to Sony STR LSA1 amp
Sony and Samsung CD/DVD writers...the problem does not seem to be drive specific...

If anyone has come across this befreoI would be most grateful for any help.

If not, then let me know what I can do to start trouble shooting this.

Cheers Guys

Neil

It's an old annoyance that's been there for years.

Try this:
Don't minimize EAC, instead use ALT+TAB to switch to your other applications.

Even if I use Alt+Tab, the EAC window keeps gaining focus.

You can use Tweak UI (from Microsoft) to prevent applications from stealing the focus.

also. for me it always helped to minimize EAC just when the encoding starts. it will then stay minimized here.

Never happened to me.
In fact, I often find it difficult to regain EAC's focus!

hawkeye_p, that checkbox is activated and it always happens with EAC only. No other applications are stealing focus.

Digga, that's what I do, too.

I've had Tweak UI setup for years to prevent apps from stealing focus, but with EAC it only sometimes stops it.

In any event I suppose it's just a quirk we'll have to deal with in using EAC for secure rips. Hopefully the stealing focus annoyance will be dealt with in a future version (fingers crossed).

Win users - try holding down the "Windows" key ("Start" key on some keyboards) and hitting "M"

If I'm not mistaken, it's the encoder sub-window that causes the trouble.

In order to minimize properly EAC, bring forth both EAC and the DOS windows where the encoding takes place.
Then minimize the encoding window first.
Then EAC's window second.

They should both remain minimized.

This solution has always worked for me on both Windows 2000 and XP:

1) Start gpedit.msc from "Run"
2) Navigate to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System
3) Double-click "Turn off Autoplay"
4) Select "Enabled" and click OK

That should do it. Note that this still allows audio CDs to be autoplayed by apps like foobar2k, but it disables all autoplay notifications to Windows.

I mentioned this problem once on the EAC forums at digital-inn and Andre suggested that stealing focus can be removed sometimes by not opening external compressor windows. Didn't work for me, but maybe it will for others.

I found, same as Digga and Sebastian, that minimizing or just changing focus to a new window just after ripping starts will prevent EAC from stealing focus. But if you go back to EAC to check the status, good luck getting back out.

mixminus1, I have autoplay turned off, but that has never helped for me at least.

Why (why why) do you post nonsense? Others will read this thread and believe the things you say are true. Please scroll up to Pio2001's post; he's right.

Edit: Toned it down some.

Use AutoHotkey. Execute a short script like this one:

After EAC finishes, kill the script (right-click the affiliated AutoHotkey icon, select Exit), and run this one:


Sorry I have no EAC on my computer right now, so please replace the text title of EAC window with the actual title of EAC's window (case-sensitive). I haven't tested this, use it at your own risk

I have always got the auto-insert notification disabled, and EAC was stealing focus all the same.

Why don't you tell this to Andre Wiethoff, the author of EAC:

That solution has also never worked for me, on four different 2000 and XP systems...the solution I *suggested* has.

OK, guys cheers for that.

I do have Tweak UI installed, but this machine did not have the prevent apps from stealing focus checked. I always have this setup, so did not re check myself on this machine...until hawkeye gave me ths kick up the backside to remind me...cheers.

Lets see what happens, thanks

Neil

The re-focusing of the window is the only thing I hate about EAC. I sometimes just have to "play" with clicking and pressing stuff on the keyboard for the window to stay minimized. Seems you gotta hit something at the right time. I always the 'hide external window' checked but problem still happens. I've just learned to live with it cause I love EAC.