If you have any themes running, disable and use just a single picture. It worked for me. Every time a theme changed pictures the game minimized.
Windows 10 minimizing any games automatically at random times
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Anonymous
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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Anonymous
2018-04-19T17:18:19+00:00 I have the same problem. Any suggestion did not solve the issue.
Please help.
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Anonymous
2018-03-25T00:14:14+00:00 This worked for me! The issue started immediately after the march 2018 update. I have an ASUS gaming laptop that isn't touchscreen and play mostly Big Fish games and it wouldn't get to the game menu before minimizing. How annoying, but this fixed it! Seems like every update there's something that doesn't run correctly. Thanks Bill545!
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Anonymous
2018-03-17T22:00:51+00:00 I found solution I think
I installed windows 10 from scratch but I downloaded newer version.
I installed same MS office again so it wasn't a problem.
I think issue was with some older Windows update not installed correctly.
didn't had that problem for months now.
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Anonymous
2018-03-17T18:55:07+00:00 Hi,
I was having a similar problem. Something was briefly popping up in the task bar and minimizing games. I uninstalled ASUS Smart Gesture and so far so good. Smart Gesture has something to do with touch screens, and since I don't have a touch screen on my desktop I think it was constantly crashing.
Hope this helps...