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
    2015-08-13T07:09:13+00:00

    Hello Krishna,

    Thanks for your reply, and yes indeed, there were some corrupted files that are now repaired. Now I will test and report back :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-29T12:59:34+00:00

    Hi,

    This is what I did to solve the issue on my PC.

    1. Installed the Process Explorer from Sysinternals.
    2. Ran the Process Explorer on a second monitor, while playing a game.
    3. After several tries I noticed that installer_no_upload_silent.exe was showing up at the top of the process list at the same time as the game minimised. This is part of the Akamai NetSession client.
    4. Uninstalled Akamai NetSession client and tested for several weeks, everything works as expected now.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-30T04:56:30+00:00

    I've had this problem as well.  I caught a glimpse of what happened the last couple of times.  It looked like a notification in the bottom right of the screen, like when there is an update, there is a little box that pops up over there.  I've noticed it the last several times the game I was playing minimized.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-17T05:48:43+00:00

    Hello again,

    After almost a week of testing, I still have the problem. But, I think I found out what program is causing this, I have this issue when Citrix Receiver is on the notification area, even if I am not using/having any connection. I installed Citrix Receiver because I connect and work from home many times. I don't know why is doing that, but I can't uninstall it.

    Is there a way to configure windows so that Citrix Receiver stop minimizing my apps/games/etc. ?

    Thanks.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-11-27T20:43:22+00:00

    Did that SFC it said nothing was corrupt but I still get it :/

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