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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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Ive got that exact same problem, I play WoW and Heroes of the storm - it happens for both games, seems like it may be because somehow an icon on the desktop can be hovered "through" the game.
It usually happens when I have kept the mouse in the same position for a second or two during a game, then suddently it just minimizes the game.
I am running Windows 10, Nvidia GTX980, latest Skylake CPU.
All windows updates installed.
Did that SFC it said nothing was corrupt but I still get it :/
I tried exactly what you suggested and still no dice... it still minizes all my games at random and it's gone from every 15 to 20 minutes to about every 45 seconds in the last week... do you by chance have any other suggestions?
I tried this and it didn't help... did moving the task bar fix the minimization issue for you?
Yes it did.
