Turn off ridiculous "activate a monitor by clicking" antifeature

Carl Fink 0 Reputation points
2026-07-28T19:41:57.22+00:00

This is very, very frustrating. It would be the act of one developer spending one hour to add a checkbox to Display Settings to turn off this nonsense antifeature that constantly trips me up.

I do not use Windows outside of work, so I'm used to the sane behavior of ... normal operating systems, I guess. Requiring two clicks to use a perfectly visible window, one you just task-switched away from, is so unintuitive as to be almost sabotage.

Fix this. It'll take one dev one hour.

I am not the first person to ask: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4073940/is-there-a-way-to-skip-the-initial-activation-step

Wow. I see as I try to post this that you've removed my ability to type in a valid tag, forcing me to pick from incorrect tags or use CoPilot's list of incorrect tags.

Windows for business | Windows Client for IT Pros | Devices and deployment | Other
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