A little explanation is needed here. Focus is the technical term for the program that has your full attention in Windows, the one that will respond to typing and has a dark blue Title bar. What is annoying me at the moment is that programs keep deciding that they should have my attention and throw themselves enthusiastically to the front of the Desktop, no matter what I'm doing at the time.

Granted, that might suggest that I'm flitting between too many programs but it is very frustrating to set one program doing something that I know will take a little while to suddenly find it leaping up.

Normally this is no more than an annoyance but it can be more serious. For example I once sent and instant message to someone with a password in it because they happened to message me at the exact time. Other times I've cancelled file copying by pressing space when the 'Are you sure you want to do this?' message appears.

Still it could be worse. Some desktops (normally in the Linux/Unix world) are set up to bring software to the front as soon as the mouse moves over them. I've tried it and it's even more confusing.