Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

  

Author Topic: Mala loses focus at startup on windows 7  (Read 1218 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

severdhed

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2975
  • Last login:December 14, 2024, 05:01:52 pm
  • RIP Dinosaur Hippo
Mala loses focus at startup on windows 7
« on: November 06, 2013, 11:39:55 pm »
i'm running mala in windows 7 x64. mala is in the startup folder, but once it launches, the start menu is partially visible on top of mala, and i have to click on mala to get it to work.  is there any easy way to resolve this?
Current Projects:      Zak-Man | TMNT Pedestal | SNES Pi | N64 Odroid
Former Projects:     4 Player Showcase | Donkey Kong | iCade

bimm25e

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 290
  • Last login:July 30, 2024, 08:44:11 am
  • I want to build my own arcade controls!
Re: Mala loses focus at startup on windows 7
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2013, 10:45:50 am »
anything else in your startup folder? make sure MaLa is last on the list

Fursphere

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1267
  • Last login:August 19, 2025, 09:35:58 am
Re: Mala loses focus at startup on windows 7
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2013, 02:48:37 pm »
With Hyperspin - the trick is normally to disable all the desktop enhancement stuff. 

harveybirdman

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2540
  • Last login:December 28, 2024, 01:21:59 am
  • SHMUP'EM
Re: Mala loses focus at startup on windows 7
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2013, 02:50:28 pm »
Pretty sure badmouth fixed a similar issue. Check mala forum.

BadMouth

  • Trade Count: (+6)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 9273
  • Last login:August 19, 2025, 03:10:32 pm
  • ...
Re: Mala loses focus at startup on windows 7
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2013, 03:06:44 pm »
Something is launching after Mala and taking focus away.

run msconfig and disable all startup items you don't need.

(I also ran services.msc and changeed anything set to "delayed start" to plain automatic, but in retrospect I don't think it was necessary)

I narrowed mine down to the xonar sound card software which I wanted running for the EQ.
There was no way to make it start any faster.

The solution was to place a shortcut to Mala in the startup folder rather than checking the box to have it start with windows.
That delayed Mala enough that the other program didn't take focus away.

severdhed

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2975
  • Last login:December 14, 2024, 05:01:52 pm
  • RIP Dinosaur Hippo
Re: Mala loses focus at startup on windows 7
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2013, 03:55:49 pm »
Awesome, I'll check that this evening hopefully. I do have it as a shortcut in the startup folder, along with an autohotkey script..I'll look through the ms config

Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk 2

Current Projects:      Zak-Man | TMNT Pedestal | SNES Pi | N64 Odroid
Former Projects:     4 Player Showcase | Donkey Kong | iCade