This problem only happens to me when I'm using wireless. I switched to a wired connection and the problem was solved. I would guess the issue is with the WZC utility in W10, but haven't the energy to fix it myself.
Windows 10 minimizing any games automatically at random times
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Anonymous
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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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2017-01-06T13:45:01+00:00 If you have a touch screen I would recommend turning off the exe. I had an incredibly frustrating experience when I first bought the computer and thought there it was programming issue but I think the touchscreen is super sensitive or something. I turned it off and my windows no longer minimize randomly.
If you don't have a touch screen, i'm sorry :/
What do you mean by "exe."? Where i can turn it off?
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Anonymous
2016-12-12T19:47:47+00:00 If you have a touch screen I would recommend turning off the exe. I had an incredibly frustrating experience when I first bought the computer and thought there it was programming issue but I think the touchscreen is super sensitive or something. I turned it off and my windows no longer minimize randomly.
If you don't have a touch screen, i'm sorry :/
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Anonymous
2016-11-26T15:47:18+00:00 I found that one thing that worked for me was deleting a useless media player that I have never heard of. It's called Nextgenp_.exe. I went to check my application stability report and noticed that an app named Nextgenp.exe continuously kept crashing. It's completely useless and I don't know how it got installed. I removed it, and low-and-behold, I have not had one game minimize since (knock on wood).
This is for Windows 10.
It is located in C:\Program files (x86)\Nextgenp
Deleted that POS and now no games have minimized.
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Anonymous
2016-11-26T01:41:13+00:00 hey where did you got that process explorer thing?.