prevention of minimization?

[Final_metroid]

one of my games (postal 2), crashes when it is minimized and will not restart (some sort of Direct X error, yes I tried reinstalling both Direct X and the game itself). The only solution seems to be preventing it from minimizing, however even if I don't press the "windows" key, sometimes some dialog box or something else (mostly the prompting of connecting to the internet), is there any add-ons or any options I could tweak so it won't be minimized by anything?

[Pyrion]

Yeah, you could start by prying off your Windows keys with a screwdriver, and then kill any unnecessary processes or anything that would attempt to automatically connect to the Internet.

...you're on dialup?