#🔒 How do I have my automated chrome window stop stealing priority & using my main desktop screen?

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marsh hull
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I am trying to use my PC while running a script and it has to keep closing and opening a Automated Chrome window... which keeps pulling priority over & over. Also covers my documents.

The script is looping every 25 seconds or so - so you can see how it's inconvenient.

Thanks in advance.

river wolfBOT
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@marsh hull

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soft gorge
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I don't have an answer, but some leads you can try to follow. Since you wrote PC, I assume you're on Windows.

If your script does not require the window to be visible, you can try to start it minimized.

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How exactly you configure this will depend on how you're starting the Chrome process.

marsh hull
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"start it minimized"
Is this in regards to all chrome windows? or my script?

soft gorge
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It's regarding the Chrome windows that your script creates.

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The win32 API has ways to start a process as minimized.

marsh hull
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where can I alter this setting?

soft gorge
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Well, how are you launching Chrome from your script? As I said, it depends.

marsh hull
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I run the .exe in my folder

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and it runs the script

soft gorge
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Right. And what does the script do to start Chrome. Can you share the relevant code for that?

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Like, are you doing subprocess.run("chrome.exe") or what?

marsh hull
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DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:53829/devtools/browser/6e4fe4b7-d54a-4a4f-84f9-44aabc58a90c
cookies loaded of artm.vereshchagin.85_mail.ru.txt

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this is what my cmd looks like

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sorry, I am new to coding

soft gorge
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Hmm that's not particularly helpful

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That's just the console output. But what is the code?

marsh hull
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i was never given the source

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I had this sent to me

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sorry - should have clarified that

soft gorge
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I see. I can't definitely say whether it's possible given those circumstances, since I don't have the full picture of what this program is doing. But without the source code, I have doubts you will be able to do anything about this unless you reverse engineer the program.

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If you just need this script to run, and don't care where it runs, consider running it in a virtual machine.

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Or even better, a server if you have the means to obtain one.

marsh hull
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thank you @soft gorge

stray meadow
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Yes, this is not a coding question. Someone sent you a program with no source. You can either run it on a different computer or ask the person who sent it to you.

river wolfBOT
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