thanks for the reply. I bought a 3 month license of ISboxer and will try it out this weekend.

I'm having no luck with the notifications thingy on the task bar however. This is driving me nuts. I simply cannot play with windows randomly deciding to make a wow window on the taskbar flash yellow and unhide the task bar. I went to the notifications option on the task bar and unchecked show notifications for every program listed. warcraft was not on the list and this didn't help.