Windows 10 minimizing any games automatically at random times

Anonymous
2015-08-11T12:39:29+00:00

Hi,

Since I installed Windows 10, all my games minimize at random times, I don't have anything else open. It happens with Steam games, as well as games not in steam, like Guild Wars 2 for example. It is so annoying, sometimes I am playing PvP tournament and the game minimize :(

This is happening in all games that I have installed right now:

-Terraria (steam)

-MKX (steam)

-Guild Wars 2

Also I found out that is not happening just in games, sometimes while I am browsing the internet too. I use Chrome to browse.

Did some research on the internet and I found some solutions, but none did work for me. What I did so far and didn't work:

-Disabled Internet Explorer 11 (Edge?).

-Set my Nvidia GPU to  single display performance. 

-Deactivated Windows Defender.

-Deactivated OneDrive.

My previous version of windows was 8.1, and I never had this issue before. It is only happening since I upgraded to windows 10. Also, to make it clear, the installation was clean, only files/documents were saved from 8.1. to 10. The rest I installed my self, like steam, the games I mentioned above and my GPU drivers.

Please help.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-05-29T19:31:31+00:00

    I can confirm this was never a issue before, games that have never did this are doing it, must have been a update that caused it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-05-29T12:27:52+00:00

    I hope Microsoft fixes this very soon. I'm relieved that I am not the only one with this problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-05-29T01:41:04+00:00

    not that I know, the biggest issue with windows 10 is that its so new the "little" bugs like this are on the bottom of the list to be fixed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-05-29T01:25:21+00:00

    Did you ever find a fix for this? I am having the same issue. Just started this week. Last thing I installed was the Creators update a few weeks ago.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-05-28T21:36:25+00:00

    I've had this issue start happening to me about 4 days ago. I noticed there was a recent windows update that happened a day before this issue started. I uninstalled the update, but the problem still happens.

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