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
    2018-01-01T17:57:13+00:00

    FWIW I had this problem, only with full screen only apps (mostly games) - tried everything here, nothing worked, then on a lark I disabled BlueTooth processes from Task Manager - not sure why but that seemed to fix it FYI.   They have been there since I bought the PC and never experienced this before, so don't know why that would work.  What a joke it is that this has been around so long and MS can't fix/help it though.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-08T04:40:12+00:00

    do this to stop the notification from minimizing your game

    You will need to open an elevated command prompt to do this; you can go to the start menu, type CMD then either right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator, or hold CTRL+Shift+Enter. At the prompt, type or paste in these commands one at a time.

    Note: Please check that the quotation marks are correct when copying the text below – some systems may incorrectly interperet the symbols. Please use double quotes. (just copy and paste this into elevated command prompt)

    cd /d "%Windir%\System32"

    takeown /F MusNotification.exe

    icacls MusNotification.exe /deny Everyone:(X)

    takeown /F MusNotificationUx.exe

    icacls MusNotificationUx.exe /deny Everyone:(X)

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-08T04:39:22+00:00

    Do this to stop the notification minimizing your game.

    You will need to open an elevated command prompt to do this; you can go to the start menu, type CMD then either right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator, or hold CTRL+Shift+Enter. At the prompt, type or paste in these commands one at a time.

    Note: Please check that the quotation marks are correct when copying the text below – some systems may incorrectly interperet the symbols. Please use double quotes. (Copy and paste this below)

    cd /d "%Windir%\System32"

    takeown /F MusNotification.exe

    icacls MusNotification.exe /deny Everyone:(X)

    takeown /F MusNotificationUx.exe

    icacls MusNotificationUx.exe /deny Everyone:(X)

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-07-16T17:55:55+00:00

    If you are running and old build of Symantec Endpoint Protection, I found that esif_assist_64.exe was crashing every other minute. Updating SEP worked for me (https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH103088.html)

    Found in event viewer (Win+R->Eventvwr.msc->Windows Logs->Application->Error->Faulting application name: esif_assist_64.exe,....)

    For me it was esif_assist_64.exe. For you, it could be a different application giving ya an application error. Hope this helps.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-06-04T23:50:20+00:00

    I was able to catch a slow motion video of my game minimizing at the specific time it does, every hour at minute 58, and was able to somewhat see what was opening up. It was Microsoft Office. Hard to make out but could clearly see Microsoft and Office in the box that popped up. I uninstalled Office and so far I have had no more minimizing. Games or any applications. Hope this helps.

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