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
    2019-03-09T18:05:29+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.

    I figured it had to be one of the RGB software i recently installed on my new PC since I haven't had this issue on my old PC. I will do some gaming an report game if this fixed it. Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-03-28T14:13:02+00:00

    this worked for me! awesome! finally :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-06-17T03:10:44+00:00

    This is absolutely ridiculous. After the last update - Windows is minimzing everything randomly. Why should I have to set priority to high (which isn't fixing the problem anyway). This is crazy to me. Thousands of people and all you can come up with is a cmd line scan which by the way I did and it found some corrupt files and fixed them but not my minimizing problem.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-06-26T04:43:45+00:00

    YoloMouse was the cause of the issue on the machine I was having this issue on.  Thank You for your post.  The wording made me think to try without it.  The weird thing about this whole issue is we had a R9 380 in this computer and dropped a Gigabyte RX 580 8G in it and then the problem started... Never had an issue with the old card installed with the driver it was using.

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