When Windows Explorer added the ability for programs to display a balloon tip in the notification area, it was accompanied by a rather nasty bug.
You would be enjoying yourself in a full-screen program, like a DirectX game or a command prompt in full-screen mode—OK, so maybe you weren’t actually enjoying the command prompt, but let’s say you were for the purpose of this story. Then without warning, you would be taken out of your full-screen program and jolted back to the desktop.
