Windows not coming to the front

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Recently, when I click on a running program in the taskbar, it is anyones guess if it will come to the front. Google chrome behind Blizzard desktop launcher, neither clicking on the program in the taskbar nor clicking on the parts of the window visible to the side of the launcher bring it to the top. Malwarebytes window open, world of warcraft on top of it, click it and it won't come to the front for several clicks. Once it is on front, now clicking on wow wont bring wow to the front. GOM media player, 3 windows open, click torrent client, comes to the front on top of 2 out of three of the gom windows. Windows explorer windows open browsing files, bring chrome to the front on top of it, clicking explorer in the taskbar will not bring it to the front. It seems to be totally random. I ran malwarebytes and got rid of some adware, and for a minute it seemed like that had fixed it. An hour later and it is happening again. Spotify on top of file folder window, clicking explorer does not come to the front.

Any help?

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I had same problem under windows 10 x64

Tried scf/scannow but no results, the below link solved the problem(although SCF showed corrupted files)

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_7-windows\_programs/newly-opened-programemail-does-not-open-in-front/fe587f90-5815-4d4a-81b5-55325019af1d

1. Go to start and type regedit.exe.

2. Navigate to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.

3. Double click the 'ForegroundLockTimeout' key. Change the notation to decimal.

4. The default value should be 200000 millisecond in decimal, or 200 seconds. Click OK.

5. Restart your computer and check if the issue persists.

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2015-02-25T14:48:30+00:00

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. I would like to know:

If you have made any changes to the computer prior to this issue.

Or do you get any error code or error message?

Please send us a screenshot of the issue. You can refer the link mentioned below to attach a screen shot on the portal.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows\_other-windows\_programs/how-to-include-a-screenshot-in-your-post/2594b08e-32a3-476a-85a6-b021181be7e4

For further queries, please feel free to contact us. We will be more than happy to help you.
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Anonymous

2015-02-25T21:39:27+00:00

I am having the same issue after updating to KB3006137.

How does one take a screenshot of the issue of windows not coming to the forefront?

I called Microsoft's help line and the rep said she would help me the one time but I needed to pay for premium support for further assistance. She told me to run Microsoft's malicious tool. Nothing was found.

I am running Windows 8.1, Quickbooks, Outlook, and Chrome on a Lenovo Yoga 2 with an HP LP2475w serving as a second monitor.

Restoring to the update prior to KB30061377 did not help.
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Anonymous

2015-02-27T03:04:16+00:00

This exact issue is happening to me as well. It just started recently, and I have made no modifications to the system that I am aware of. Windows 8.1.

This is beyond frustrating.
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Anonymous

2015-03-02T20:37:35+00:00

I have a similar problem, but I think I've identified it being a bug in synergy, which I'm running. If you are running synergy, see here:

https://github.com/synergy/synergy/issues/4349

A recent windows update (KB3013455) seems to be incompatible with synergy.
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