How to disable auto-pause in Secret of Monkey Island: SE?

Question

Is there any way to disable the auto pause that takes you to the menu screen?

I play Secret of Monkey Island: SE in windowed mode. Whenever I click on something outside the window, the game will automatically pause and go to the menu screen. I have a dual monitor setup, and I want to play Monkey Island on one screen, and work on something else in the other without having to constantly pause and resume the game.

Edit:

I found a helpful Stack Overflow link that may be of use in writing a Monkey Island Un-Pauser program.

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with how message passing works in Windows, but there may be a way to prevent loss-of-focus messages from reaching the game with an external program.

If you need assistance with writing such a program, remember there's always StackOverflow!

Answer 2

I don't know if this is the same problem you are having, but you could try the solution found here:

Open Task Manager
find MISE.exe in the "processes" list.
Right click it and then click "Set Affinity..."
Uncheck the checkbox next to all CPU cores except for one (it doesn't matter which one you leave checked, as long as only one is checked).
Play Game!

If this works, and you don't want to do this every time, more information can be found in the thread to edit the program and make this solution permanent (i would obviously test it first before doing that)