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
    2017-12-06T20:41:33+00:00

    It is very simple my friends.. may be I am late here but I know the trouble maker. 

    It is a program installed on your computers known as Windows 10.

    All you have to do is uninstall it .. go back to Win 7 (if not Win XP) and install your games and everything will be fine.

     Microsoft is absolutely aware of this issue and it does not make a difference for them because majority (more than 99%) of the users will not install another OS or downgrade to Win 7 .  If it was a Windows Server issue i.e. Business Issue , then they will force their geeks to find a solution but it is not a business critical thing (money) so simply ignore it ...

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-07T20:59:19+00:00

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

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  5. 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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