Frisky070802's Journal: random loss of input focus in WinXP - Help?

I am tearing my hair out. I got a new thinkpad a few days ago. It has something running in the background that is causing the window that I'm typing into to lose focus at random, sometimes as often as every couple of minutes. I tried installing tweakUI and its feature to prevent apps from stealing focus, but it's had no effect. So, I type away, and I lose characters if I'm not watching like a hawk. Surely there is an app I can install that would sit around and, when something tries to grab the focus, would say "gotcha!"

Just a thought...

[Cap'n.Brownbeard]

Make sure your hand isn't randomly hitting the mouse buttons or sensor pad while you type... I used to do that all the time when I first started using laptops.