Games lose focus

[solly]

I have a problem where roughly every 5-20 minutes my computer switches back to the desktop, this happens in Halflife 2 and Battlefield 1942 (and probably other games...) - Its very annoying and often seems to happen at critical game moments. I run a virus scanner and firewall and anti spyware stuff regularly and it all checks out ok - so I'm kinda stumped. Anyone had this problem or knows whats causing it? - it's highly annoying....

Other than that Halflife 2 is the dogs knackers, ahem.

Intel P4 2.53 Mhz, 1 gig of PC2100 ram, Geforce 6600 GT AGP with the latest (non beta drivers), Audigy 2, 10 gig of free HDD space, Windows XP Home

 

[NeptuneUK]

todays lesson, kids: DONT press alt and tab!

 

[solly]

Nice try - but no cigar

Trust me, my fingers are nowhere near alt-tab (or the windows key), there must be some other explanation cos it sometimes happens when I'm not even touching the keyboard and it isn't the mouse cable either as I route that under my desk...

NEXT

 

[holydeadpenguins]

Try starting up without any startup programs, that might help/