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
    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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  2. Anonymous
    2017-06-27T05:45:45+00:00

    I had the same issue while playing games. As someone who streams their games and have it minimize during a game was getting out of hand. However, after some searching around figured out that the little window that pops up for a split second was not a virus or malware running, but has to do with Microsoft Office.

    The window that pops up is called "officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe"

    The one that runs every hour is called "OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration"

    You could disable it by following these steps to see if it helps you. Just make sure to check that Microsoft Office is running smoothly afterwards.

    Windows > (type in) Task Scheduler

    Task Scheduler > Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Office

    Find "OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration"

    Right-click > Disable

    If you do not want to disable, but instead want to keep the window from popping up:

    Windows > (type in) Task Scheduler

    Task Scheduler > Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Office

    Find "OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration"

    Right-click > Properties > "General" > Click "Change User or Group"

    Type "system" > Click "OK"

    Let me know if this solved your issue at all.

    This information was found on the ghacks website provided courtesy of Martin Brinkmann.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-07-04T16:10:00+00:00

    yes i have this to, some lightblue icon shows up in my bar for not even a sec and that makes everything minimize, no one who knows what this is?

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-07-11T12:28:07+00:00

    hey guys

    i found that idm do that when i cracked so exit idm and try again

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  5. 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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