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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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I'm having the same problem, keeps minimizing my games back to desktop.
It all started around the same time as the last Microsoft update, so no surprises there. Just another MS fluff up.
Every update they add more junk-ware to the install, like skype for business. I found this rubbish was starting up with windows by default. I don't use crappy skype, I hate the thing yet they sneak stuff onto your system without your knowledge or permission.
It's enough to make you revert back to win 8 or 7.
One game in particular was minimizing every two or three minutes.
When I changed my AVG 'Do not disturb' to off for that particular game then the problem no longer happened.
all I needed to do was stop using wallpaper that changes. I use a single picture that doesn't cycle, like a slideshow. Every time the wallpaper picture changed is when my games minimized. Since doing this I haven't had any issues with anything minimizing on its own.
This happens to me with 2 monitors. I play rainbow Six siege competitively and started happening once I turned my Primary monitor off while the game was still running (this was accidental). AS SOON AS THIS HAPPENED, I experienced the issue frequently and the ghost screen which pops-up is the Display settings screen. At least for me. In order to counter this, I simply unplugged my Secondary monitor and plug it in when I need 2 screens and am no actively gaming.
Hope this helps.
Soup.
a temporary solution that works for me is to play in borderless mode. my pc started doing this 3 days ago with every game I play in full screen mode. I haven't found a solution yet. if u figured out a fix I'd love to know. u usually have a pretty good idea if some ones so called solution is going to work before you even do it. I didn't think scamming something was going to solve the problem and big surprise it didn't do ****. good luck finding a fix for this. I also had the windows exorer cpu usage problem. it was using 20 to 30% of my cpu . that stopped and this started a couple days later. this is why I have a ps4 too.
