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
    2016-03-30T12:27:07+00:00

    I am also having the same issue and tried SFC which said I had no issues but the windows are still randomly minimizing, usually when I click on anything.  Very frustrating!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-29T14:25:24+00:00

    its a little box that flashes for a fraction of a second on the left center of the screen every 30-60seconds its annoying as **** and is happening currently but it only  minimizes when I'm playing a game but whenever I have anything open it always starts happening

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-24T20:57:26+00:00

    I actually ended up going back to windows 8.1 cuz of these issues and for the most part everything has mellowed out...

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-29T16:18:43+00:00

    I don't seem to have that on my computer.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-11-29T02:10:13+00:00

    I tried this and it didn't help... did moving the task bar fix the minimization issue for you?

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