This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off always move windows to top when activating for mouse hover for your account in Windows 11.
If you turn on Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse pointer, a window will be moved to the top by default when you activate the window by hovering over it with the mouse pointer.
You can turn on or off Move window to top when activating for mouse hover.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26100.4202 (24H2), Mouse settings are now easier to access under Settings > Accessibility > Mouse and Mouse pointer and touch, with no need to open Control Panel.
The Move window to top when activating for mouse hover setting is stored in the UserPreferencesMask binary value in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop registry key for the current user.
Here's How:
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Accessibility on the left side, and click/tap on Mouse on the right side under Interaction. (see screenshot below)
3 Under Activate on hover, check (on - default) or uncheck (off) Move window to top when activating for mouse hover for what you want. (see screenshot below)
This requires Activate on hover to be turned on first.
4 You can now close Settings if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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