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
    2019-03-02T11:30:53+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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-03-02T11:03:28+00:00

    I just tried this fix, there were some corrupted files found.

    Hopefully, this fixes the problem

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-02-09T17:41:58+00:00

    This did not help on the issue , for me anyway , but then again i never understood why Microsoft and windows products need to go on tablets and smart phones , widows 10 has som fancy functions but really its should only be a operating system for computers , not smart phones or tablets

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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
    2019-01-24T05:56:38+00:00

    I found the culprit in my case. My full-screen games kept minimizing at 30-40 minute intervals, and always twice in a row (about 2-3 sec apart). Usually right after I would click to maximize, it would minimize again. This cycle kept repeating (to my extreme frustration.. nothing like being in Battlefield and have your screen minimize right at a critical moment!).

    The offender in my case was the "Akamai Netsession" services I had running in the background (loaded when Windows loads). Some SaaS platforms use this utility (i.e. Adobe CC Cloud, Autodesk, etc.) My task manager showed 2 separate instances running. Once I killed these, the issue stopped. Now made sense why my games would minimize twice in a row. I suppose the utility is set to pole something, however doing so takes exclusive control of the active desktop (whereby minimizing your game).

    It's a little tricky killing them, as when killing one instance it is loaded back again by the other. So you have to be quick about it. I have reported this issue to Akamai, but I doubt they care.

    Hope this helps others!

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