Feature request: After closing a window, focus the most recent window

[ghost]

In Windows 10 and 11 when you switch windows by clicking their Taskbar button (i.e., not by Alt+Tab), and then close them, focus goes to the Taskbar and not to the most recent window. Example:

• Open an app, e.g. Windows Explorer.
• Open a different app, e.g. Edge.
• Now the second app has focus, thus focus the first by clicking its Taskbar button, and close it.
• Currently: The Taskbar gets focused. My expectation: The most recent window (Edge) should get focused.

I think, it would be nice, if ExplorerPatcher would fix this behavior.

Oftentimes I don't immediately notice, that the window I'm working with has no focus, because in latest Windows you can scroll a window with the mouse wheel even if it's not focused. Thus I can read a long article in my browser that's not focused, and when I press a hotkey, the browser naturally doesn't react. Very annoying.

[pyrates999]

Do you mean this?

1. Close all other windows
2. Open an application, e.g. Windows Explorer. If it opens maximized, click the maximize button to unmaximize it, close it and start over.
3. Open a different application, e.g. Edge. If it opens maximized, click the maximize button to unmaximize it, close it and start over.
4. Now the second application has focus.
5. Right click on the first app in the taskbar and select close window.

Currently: The Taskbar gets focused. If you have another application that is already open, it may get focus instead of the application opened in step 3.

What should happen: The most recent window (Edge) should get focused.

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Please verify this without EP installed. If it happens without EP installed, this is a bug in windows and thus EP can't fix it.

[Poopooracoocoo]

As I said in one of the other issues or discussions, I saw this behaviour on Windows 10 without EP. I think EP could perhaps implement a change for this. I don't know about the technical feasibility, but it's not necessarily out of scope as far as I can tell :)

[pyrates999]

I would leave this for MS to fix.

[ghost]

The bug is present in windows for years now. I think they simply don't care. They won't fix it.