Norton Ghost 15 is stealing window focus

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Hi,

 

I recently got Norton Ghost, and I find it much better than the default Windwos backup utility, but I have run into a small hiccup. For some reason, every 5 minutes, Norton Ghost will steal focus, and cause my program to lose focus. This is extremely annoying if I am typing something (like right now), and it loses focus, resulting in me typing, but no words appearing. I have reclick the window to continue typing. This also happens during games, and my windows will minimise, resulting in the game being very annoying to play. The strange thing is no new icon is shown in the taskbar, and it happens so fast, I'm unable to catch it in Task Manager. Does anyone have a solution for this?

 

Thanks

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Hi,

 

I recently got Norton Ghost, and I find it much better than the default Windwos backup utility, but I have run into a small hiccup. For some reason, every 5 minutes, Norton Ghost will steal focus, and cause my program to lose focus. This is extremely annoying if I am typing something (like right now), and it loses focus, resulting in me typing, but no words appearing. I have reclick the window to continue typing. This also happens during games, and my windows will minimise, resulting in the game being very annoying to play. The strange thing is no new icon is shown in the taskbar, and it happens so fast, I'm unable to catch it in Task Manager. Does anyone have a solution for this?

 

Thanks

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No, that doesn't help, but this only happened after I installed Ghost. Could It be the VProRecovery thing?

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I've never had the experience that you are having even when Ghost starts a backup, it is in the background and I don't even notice it running.

 

So are you seeing something pop up that steals focus? Any messages? Try stopping the Ghost service to see it the behavior stops... Start > Run > Type services.msc [enter]. Scroll down to Norton Ghost and stop the service. You can either start the Ghost service the way you stopped it or just reboot the computer.

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Hmm, I uninstalled Ghost to see what happened, but it stills steals focus. Could there be something left over from Ghost? If not, does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks.

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With Ghost uninstalled, something is still stealing focus?

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I think I've found the solution. I ended Music Manager Beta and Google talk beta. Apparently, I had an old version of talk, and it was stealing the focus of the other programs, but thanks for all the support you guys have provided. I'm reinstalling Ghost right now.

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Thanks for the followup! You had me wondering what was going on. Like I said, most of the time, I don't even realize Ghost is running a backup. I used to notice when I had a single core processor though :smileysurprised: