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
    2016-03-16T12:52:49+00:00

    Come on Microsoft... There are thousands of problems people are reporting since the Inside Preview and you are not doing a thing to fix it!!! What is the point of these forums if your only answer (to virtually all problems) is "run sfc/scannow"...

    March 2016 - the problem still occurs. Makes playing some games impossible, since minimising the game engine breaks it in some older titles...

    I'm starting getting sick of this "service"...

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-29T02:07:20+00:00

    I tried exactly what you suggested and still no dice... it still minizes all my games at random and it's gone from every 15 to 20 minutes to about every 45 seconds in the last week... do you by chance have any other suggestions?

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-24T18:34:48+00:00

    Still having this issue.... Never had this with Win8... Win10 isn't really good for gamers I'm noticing. Also I HAVE to use it for college but with these issues everytime. ugh.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-02-02T18:36:37+00:00

    It has been 4 years and this issue still isn't fixed. I tried every single thing possible on the internet and NOTHING works. I might as well sell my stupid gaming PC as Microsoft is incapable of fixing this one issue thousands of people have.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-06-03T20:02:17+00:00

    If you have MS Office 365 installed, this may help: https://rtechsupport.org/kb/cmdpopup/The reason is a scheduled task called "OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration"

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