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
    2019-06-29T01:58:13+00:00

    YoloMouse was the cause of the issue on the machine I was having this issue on.  Thank You for your post.  The wording made me think to try without it.  The weird thing about this whole issue is we had a R9 380 in this computer and dropped a Gigabyte RX 580 8G in it and then the problem started... Never had an issue with the old card installed with the driver it was using. 

    Yeah... I think there is an OS level call, in Windows 10, that is causing these programs to take exclusive control of the desktop (or screen). Much the same way pressing the Windows key does. And by default it grabs modal control, unless specifically set to NOT do so. Even if, for instance, a service performs a fuction which executes an external program in the background. And although THAT executable may be set to non-interactive (no window) it still takes control, which then causes the current 'top' window to minimize.

    Microsoft needs to fix this when running games at 'fullscreen'. And should block the ability for any process to take modal control of the desktop.

    But here's the catch. If it's a Windows 10 telemetry issue (where the OS is reporting an update to Microsoft), then you can forget about seeing a fix. Which would also explain the silence, from MS, on this issue.

    Just an assumption.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-06-26T04:43:45+00:00

    YoloMouse was the cause of the issue on the machine I was having this issue on.  Thank You for your post.  The wording made me think to try without it.  The weird thing about this whole issue is we had a R9 380 in this computer and dropped a Gigabyte RX 580 8G in it and then the problem started... Never had an issue with the old card installed with the driver it was using.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-06-17T03:10:44+00:00

    This is absolutely ridiculous. After the last update - Windows is minimzing everything randomly. Why should I have to set priority to high (which isn't fixing the problem anyway). This is crazy to me. Thousands of people and all you can come up with is a cmd line scan which by the way I did and it found some corrupt files and fixed them but not my minimizing problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-03-28T14:13:02+00:00

    this worked for me! awesome! finally :)

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-03-09T18:05:29+00:00

    I just found the issue for me. The program RGB Fusion from Gigabyte caused my games to minimize every 30-60 minutes. I'd suggest uninstalling that program if you got it. It will most likely fix the issue.

    I figured it had to be one of the RGB software i recently installed on my new PC since I haven't had this issue on my old PC. I will do some gaming an report game if this fixed it. Thanks

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