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
    2018-02-01T17:48:03+00:00

    I found a solution:

    The Microsoft Office is the responsible for this.

    To fix this:

    1. Open Task scheduler
    2. look in left column and Select the little arrow next to Task Scheduler library - this should reveal the layers below it.
    3. Click little arrow next to Microsoft Folder

    Click little arrow next to Officeand in the right column, search for OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration task and disable it.

    IN some cases it helps to disable OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerLogon as well

    Hope that this help you guys!

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-02-01T17:01:42+00:00

    I have the same problem......but when I play games at full screen something just pops up on my desktop and it minimizes my game or app .... that thing don't even open longer than a second. 

    I have tried sfc scaning.... but it didn't fix the problem ...

    PLEASE HELP!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-07T20:59:19+00:00

    Same here... Every Day this is happening. No fix for this?

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-06T15:11:49+00:00

    Have the same issue and from my research, it appears to be related to the touch screen. Haven't found a solution besides switching to a non-touch screen monitor.

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  5. 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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