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
    2015-11-29T12:59:34+00:00

    Hi,

    This is what I did to solve the issue on my PC.

    1. Installed the Process Explorer from Sysinternals.
    2. Ran the Process Explorer on a second monitor, while playing a game.
    3. After several tries I noticed that installer_no_upload_silent.exe was showing up at the top of the process list at the same time as the game minimised. This is part of the Akamai NetSession client.
    4. Uninstalled Akamai NetSession client and tested for several weeks, everything works as expected now.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-29T16:18:43+00:00

    I don't seem to have that on my computer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-15T19:10:42+00:00

    Hi there,

    I tried running sfc/scannow and I got a message that it tried to repair something but it couldn't and to go check CBS.log

    what I found there that stood out for me was the following.  I don't really know what I'm looking at but there seems to be an issue with a logo which sounds benign enough.  Any suggestions?

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055bc Hashes for file member \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-a..ntscontrol.appxmain_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.10240.16542_none_962b3722d8a38b67\SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png do not match actual file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" :

      Found: {l:32 b:BnPX7YFa/T9jQSEb4E01KFQAXRVnAiUD2GobYj59lWY=} Expected: {l:32 b:IAE5VpWSac/hrcnrRcc+tLLzF5vFUdztBgeew66My2w=}

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055bd [SR] Cannot repair member file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" of Microsoft-Windows-AccountsControl.AppxMain, Version = 10.0.10240.16542, pA = amd64, nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35} in the store, hash mismatch

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055be@2015/12/15:19:00:56.820 Primitive installers committed for repair

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055bf Hashes for file member \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-a..ntscontrol.appxmain_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.10240.16542_none_962b3722d8a38b67\SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png do not match actual file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" :

      Found: {l:32 b:BnPX7YFa/T9jQSEb4E01KFQAXRVnAiUD2GobYj59lWY=} Expected: {l:32 b:IAE5VpWSac/hrcnrRcc+tLLzF5vFUdztBgeew66My2w=}

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c0 [SR] Cannot repair member file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" of Microsoft-Windows-AccountsControl.AppxMain, Version = 10.0.10240.16542, pA = amd64, nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35} in the store, hash mismatch

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c1 [SR] This component was referenced by [l:158{79}]"Package_584_for_KB3116869~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.2.3116869-1636_neutral"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c2 [SR] This component was referenced by [l:158{79}]"Package_409_for_KB3097617~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.5.3097617-1181_neutral"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c3 [SR] This component was referenced by [l:158{79}]"Package_566_for_KB3105210~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.3.3105210-1473_neutral"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c4 [SR] This component was referenced by [l:158{79}]"Package_567_for_KB3105213~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.6.3105213-1552_neutral"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c5 Hashes for file member ??\C:\WINDOWS\SystemApps\Microsoft.AccountsControl_cw5n1h2txyewy\Assets\SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png do not match actual file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" :

      Found: {l:32 b:BnPX7YFa/T9jQSEb4E01KFQAXRVnAiUD2GobYj59lWY=} Expected: {l:32 b:IAE5VpWSac/hrcnrRcc+tLLzF5vFUdztBgeew66My2w=}

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c6 Hashes for file member \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-a..ntscontrol.appxmain_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.10240.16542_none_962b3722d8a38b67\SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png do not match actual file [l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png" :

      Found: {l:32 b:BnPX7YFa/T9jQSEb4E01KFQAXRVnAiUD2GobYj59lWY=} Expected: {l:32 b:IAE5VpWSac/hrcnrRcc+tLLzF5vFUdztBgeew66My2w=}

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c7 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [ml:146{73},l:144{72}]"??\C:\WINDOWS\SystemApps\Microsoft.AccountsControl_cw5n1h2txyewy\Assets"[l:68{34}]"SmallLogo.Theme-Dark_Scale-100.png"; source file in store is also corrupted

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c8@2015/12/15:19:00:56.883 Primitive installers committed for repair

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055c9 [SR] Repair complete

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055ca [SR] Committing transaction

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055cb Creating NT transaction (seq 2), objectname [6]"(null)"

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055cc Created NT transaction (seq 2) result 0x00000000, handle @0xa14

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055cd@2015/12/15:19:00:56.898 Beginning NT transaction commit...

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055ce@2015/12/15:19:00:56.911 CSI perf trace:

    CSIPERF:TXCOMMIT;13990

    2015-12-15 14:00:56, Info                  CSI    000055cf [SR] Verify and Repair Transaction completed. All files and registry keys listed in this transaction  have been successfully repaired

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-15T19:48:54+00:00

    Will try thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-12-24T18:34:48+00:00

    Still having this issue.... Never had this with Win8... Win10 isn't really good for gamers I'm noticing. Also I HAVE to use it for college but with these issues everytime. ugh.

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