Windows 10: MoNotificationUx.exe is stealing window focus. How do I remove or disable it?

I've been having issues with something stealing my window focus since I upgraded to Windows 11 about a week ago. Using a tool called Window Focus Logger, I figured out the culprit has been a System32 executable called MoNotificationUx.exe and I have no idea how to stop it from stealing focus. Searching for answers online has been fruitless as barely anyone even talks about the existence of MoNotificationUx.exe and no one shares my issue with it stealing focus.Does anyone know how to deal with this annoying behavior?

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Disabling Apps/Programs from Focus Stealing

This is a general inquiry about how to disable specific programs' ability to steal focus/move their windows to front in windows 10. There used to be a registry you could edit to disable this I believe, but was removed for Windows 7(?) and apparently editing it (I've read [1]) doesn't affect anything.

Is there some way to edit a program's permission's or the registry or another setting to prevent either all programs or select programs from stealing focus etc? (This is for programs that don't give you the option of turning it off in their settings.)

Thanks for the help

[1] Preventing applications from stealing focus

 

Black Window Stealing Focus

First off, from what I can tell this is some sort of window. Windows can display over top of it, but only by bringing up or forcing the OS to show a window or item by hovering mouse over taskbar icon. The black window also is not fullscreen as anything being displayed behind it can be visible as a border around it (1 pixel on all sides).

I can't really say what is causing it. I have disabled searchapp.exe as it seemed to be randomly stealing the focus and it was being reported as the culprit by Window Focus Logger. Unfortunately it still happens from time to time, but focus logger now says it's Explorer.exe taking focus. I have tried terminating and disabling processes and services trying to determine what it is. The only way to remove it is to restart the computer. When doing so, before windows shuts down, the black window does close which suggests to me there is a process behind it.

Windows 10 Home Version 20H2 (OS Build 19042.804)

I will do what I can to provide any information request.
I am attaching 2 images, the first being what is displayed when it happens.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

mstsc.exe stealing focus

Hello.

I have a problem on my Windows 11 PC. Whenever I do anything on my PC, a program called mstsc.exe steals focus of my opened window. This happens every few minutes. The program is located in C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe. I used this program: focus to discover that this process is causing the issue and steals my foreground window focus.

How can I fix it?

Thank you.