Windows 7 activation
If you have windows 7 you might notice that the activating of Windows is different to XP and perhaps Vista. In XP, as soon as you put the cursor over a window, that window gets focused and stays underneath. Windows 7 has an option in Control Panel 'ease of access' to bring the lower window to the top if you put the mouse on it - problem is, it's slow and besides, you might not want the window to come to the top.
For Poker, the XP behavior is far better as hotkeys won't need a click to bring the table to focus. You can get it on Windows 7 in the method below. If it doesn't work, go back to the registry editor and confirm that your changes are still there.
Step #1:
Open regedit (start menu, run and type in regedit and press OK), go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Edit UserPreferenceMask value to be 9F 3E 07 80 12 00 00 00
You should only have to modify the first pair.
Step #2:
In the same place in regedit, edit ActiveWndTrkTimeout, change Base to Decimal and put in 0 as the Value Data
Step #3:
Log off and log back in
Step #4:
Profit