"Focus stealing" is when you and the computer are focussing on one program and another pops-up and tries to get your attention and highjacking your concentration.

Or it could be a little more of a problem when you are answering questions that you didn't know was being asked. Or it could be a sinister attempt to get you to type a password into a normal block so it can be read by other programs.

The registry key "ForegroundLockTimeout" controls the amount of time (milliseconds) that Windows will wait before switching focus to another window. So it can be used to keep an application from "focus stealing".

• registry navigate the registry to:
   » HKEY_Local_Machine
   » Control Panel
   » Desktop
• change the "ForegroundLockTimeout" key to
a decimal value more than 200,000