How prevent Windows 7 from stealing focus?

I have been begging MS since the early 90s to fix focus stealing. It isnt impossible, linux isnt half as bad.

Sometimes it is worse when installing something. I cant recall what it was but just the other day it was frustrating me out of my mind.. it was something big like photoshop or something..vmware maybe.. either way it was going to take a while to install, so I went back to work.. which involves some chatting. What ever I was installing must have had to install a bunch of little programs or addons w/e and every single solitary time that a new install started I lose focus in chat, some of the programs were so small that I lost focus a couple of times.. Not one of those programs needed any interaction from me at all. There wasnt a continue button to hit.. it just stole focus and left me looking at the installer.

I gave up on work.. I ended up calling the guy after several attempts to tell him why i wasnt responding.

it is 2012 and hard to believe that MS hasnt fixed this yet. Though most of the time they just tell me "it is fixed".. NO NO IT IS NOT.

The more details you can supply, the better chance of someone noticing something that might help.

Windows XP has a utility program [Tweak UI] you can download from Microsoft which modifies the settings in Windows. One of these utilities allowed the user to change the internal Windows settings to allow or to NOT allow another program to steal focus. It was great! As you have noted, it is irritating to have a program steal focus right in the middle of typing something; and, then, wonder what command you executed when you hit the enter key on your keyboard -- which, instead of moving to the next paragraph on what you were typing, it executed a command in another program which popped up a window and stole the focus of your computer. I don't know if Windows 7 has a similar feature; I'd love to know about it if you find one.