Windows Vista switches active window when cursor passes over it

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Another fun question about Vista. This happens on both my office PC at work with its mouse, and my home laptop which does not use a mouse.

Sometimes, when I pull the cursor across the screen where there are two or more windows open (with one partly hidden by the top/active window), the context will switch to the window that was underneath, as the mouse cursor passes over it. This happens even though I do not click any mouse buttons. It's darned annoying, and not reproducible so far as I can tell.

My search of the web did find a mouse-hover-switch-windows "feature", but I checked my mouse control panel settings, and that is not enabled.

Thanks for any thoughts or things to check.
 

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berkeman said:
My search of the web did find a mouse-hover-switch-windows "feature", but I checked my mouse control panel settings, and that is not enabled.

In the "Ease of Use" settings via "Personalize" off the desktop?
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
In the "Ease of Use" settings via "Personalize" off the desktop?

Do you mean Ease of Access? I've gone through the mouse and keyboard sections of that, but only the Mouse Keys feature looks suspicious so far...
 
Yeah, the latest time it happened (today), I couldn't click/change to a window behind the top-most window (which was incorrectly given the top context by my cursor sweep). Seems like a Vista intermittant Window context bug/lockup...