How do i stop being interrupted during games

Please help me as this is driving me crazy! How do I
alter windows so that when I'm in a frag-tastic match of
unreal tournament, the game doesnt suddenly minimise
itself to the menu bar because someone has decided to
send me an AIM (just one example). I mean I can't get
past 4 mins into the game without something wanting my
attention or some multi-tasking on the processors part
causing problems. This has happened with every program
ive ever used so the easiest thing ive done is to put it
in a window which i don't want to do.

Please help!!

Frustrated windows user
tom

Create a user account called "gamer" and then only run the
minimum services and applications in that user account
needed for the game.

No AIM, chat, email, whatever.


"Thomas Baxter" <thenextlevel@btopenworld.com> wrote in
message news:05d101c3ae54$1beeb320$a501280a@phx.gbl...
| Please help me as this is driving me crazy! How do I
| alter windows so that when I'm in a frag-tastic match of
| unreal tournament, the game doesnt suddenly minimise
| itself to the menu bar because someone has decided to
| send me an AIM (just one example). I mean I can't get
| past 4 mins into the game without something wanting my
| attention or some multi-tasking on the processors part
| causing problems. This has happened with every program
| ive ever used so the easiest thing ive done is to put it
| in a window which i don't want to do.
|
| Please help!!
|
| Frustrated windows user
| tom

Did you ever think of turning the IM software off while your playing a game?
If your going to be playing, just close all other applications.
The game will run better that way.

"Thomas Baxter" <thenextlevel@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:05d101c3ae54$1beeb320$a501280a@phx.gbl...

> Please help me as this is driving me crazy! How do I
> alter windows so that when I'm in a frag-tastic match of
> unreal tournament, the game doesnt suddenly minimise
> itself to the menu bar because someone has decided to
> send me an AIM (just one example). I mean I can't get
> past 4 mins into the game without something wanting my
> attention or some multi-tasking on the processors part
> causing problems. This has happened with every program
> ive ever used so the easiest thing ive done is to put it
> in a window which i don't want to do.
>
> Please help!!
>
> Frustrated windows user
> tom