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
    2016-01-06T14:15:07+00:00

    On the command line utility (cmd) run:

    REG QUERY "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v ForegroundLockTimeout

    If the value is not 0x30d40, run the command below:

    REG ADD "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v ForegroundLockTimeout /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00030d40 /f

    Restart Windows

    This has fixed the 'games minimizing to Desktop issue' for me

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-04-24T14:37:37+00:00

    Howdy my fix has worked for a while now.

    I turned off onedrive , Seems every few minutes as it searches for new file to back up this is what is causing the change to desktop and of course it is not an error so does not show up in the dxdiag or msinfo

    Try it just disable you onedrive syncing for a day and no more flash to desktop, Hope it works for yall so happy I can play games without suddenly being on the desktop and vehicle slams into wall or someone kills me lol

    Doug

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-15T19:10:42+00:00

    Hi there,

    I tried running sfc/scannow and I got a message that it tried to repair something but it couldn't and to go check CBS.log

    what I found there that stood out for me was the following.  I don't really know what I'm looking at but there seems to be an issue with a logo which sounds benign enough.  Any suggestions?

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055bc Hashes for file member \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-a..ntscontrol.appxmain_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.10240.16542_none_962b3722d8a38b67\SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png do not match actual file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" :

      Found: {l:32 b:BnPX7YFa/T9jQSEb4E01KFQAXRVnAiUD2GobYj59lWY=} Expected: {l:32 b:IAE5VpWSac/hrcnrRcc+tLLzF5vFUdztBgeew66My2w=}

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055bd [SR] Cannot repair member file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" of Microsoft-Windows-AccountsControl.AppxMain, Version = 10.0.10240.16542, pA = amd64, nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35} in the store, hash mismatch

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055be@2015/12/15:19:00:56.820 Primitive installers committed for repair

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055bf Hashes for file member \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-a..ntscontrol.appxmain_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.10240.16542_none_962b3722d8a38b67\SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png do not match actual file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" :

      Found: {l:32 b:BnPX7YFa/T9jQSEb4E01KFQAXRVnAiUD2GobYj59lWY=} Expected: {l:32 b:IAE5VpWSac/hrcnrRcc+tLLzF5vFUdztBgeew66My2w=}

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c0 [SR] Cannot repair member file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" of Microsoft-Windows-AccountsControl.AppxMain, Version = 10.0.10240.16542, pA = amd64, nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35} in the store, hash mismatch

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c1 [SR] This component was referenced by [l:158{79}]"Package_584_for_KB3116869~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.2.3116869-1636_neutral"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c2 [SR] This component was referenced by [l:158{79}]"Package_409_for_KB3097617~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.5.3097617-1181_neutral"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c3 [SR] This component was referenced by [l:158{79}]"Package_566_for_KB3105210~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.3.3105210-1473_neutral"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c4 [SR] This component was referenced by [l:158{79}]"Package_567_for_KB3105213~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.6.3105213-1552_neutral"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c5 Hashes for file member ??\C:\WINDOWS\SystemApps\Microsoft.AccountsControl_cw5n1h2txyewy\Assets\SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png do not match actual file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" :

      Found: {l:32 b:BnPX7YFa/T9jQSEb4E01KFQAXRVnAiUD2GobYj59lWY=} Expected: {l:32 b:IAE5VpWSac/hrcnrRcc+tLLzF5vFUdztBgeew66My2w=}

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c6 Hashes for file member \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-a..ntscontrol.appxmain_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.10240.16542_none_962b3722d8a38b67\SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png do not match actual file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" :

      Found: {l:32 b:BnPX7YFa/T9jQSEb4E01KFQAXRVnAiUD2GobYj59lWY=} Expected: {l:32 b:IAE5VpWSac/hrcnrRcc+tLLzF5vFUdztBgeew66My2w=}

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c7 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [ml:146{73},l:144{72}]"??\C:\WINDOWS\SystemApps\Microsoft.AccountsControl_cw5n1h2txyewy\Assets"[l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png"; source file in store is also corrupted

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c8@2015/12/15:19:00:56.883 Primitive installers committed for repair

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c9 [SR] Repair complete

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055ca [SR] Committing transaction

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055cb Creating NT transaction (seq 2), objectname [6]"(null)"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055cc Created NT transaction (seq 2) result 0x00000000, handle @0xa14

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055cd@2015/12/15:19:00:56.898 Beginning NT transaction commit...

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055ce@2015/12/15:19:00:56.911 CSI perf trace:

    CSIPERF:TXCOMMIT;13990

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055cf [SR] Verify and Repair Transaction completed. All files and registry keys listed in this transaction  have been successfully repaired

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-02T17:07:56+00:00

    I have been having this problem too.

    I noticed however in my case that it's something to do with the task bar. Whenever I click at the bottom of the screen in a game, in the general area where the taskbar is on the desktop behind it, the game minimizes. If I click in the far left corner to open a chat box in one of the games, the game minimizes and opens the start menu because that's where the start menu button is behind it. 

    I moved the task bar to the far right edge of my desktop, then went back into a game and clicked all along the bottom. Nothing. When I clicked the far right edge of the screen, where I had moved the taskbar on the desktop, the game would minimize again. 

    It seems like there is a setting that must be minimizing open windows/apps when you click in the area of the taskbar, but I can't seem to find it. Or maybe Windows 10 is forgetting to ignore the taskbar while you are in a program.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-11-01T05:07:35+00:00

    I have this same issue, however it only happens after windows updates. After windows is finished updating, my computer will automatically minimize any app that is not my internet browser. Also, any drop down menu that is available such as a right click or menu option in my browser will not remain open, once any menu is opened it immediately closes. The status circle on the right side of my mouse will also blink about 3/sec constantly. ive been able to fix this issue twice now, but this shouldn't keep happening every time there is an update for windows. 

    It seems like there is a program that is trying to open, and taking priority over everything else.

    Please help fix this

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