Thank you, that is helpful to understand it.
Windows 11--most recently opened Explorer window keeps popping up into the foreground
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About a month ago Windows Explorer started the annoying habit of routinely moving its most recently opened window into the foreground. Is there a way to stop it from doing this?
For example, I'll open an Explorer window to open a file into another application, and a few minutes later, for no apparent reason, Windows Explorer will interrupt the application by popping its Explorer window into the foreground. The same thing will happen when watching a video: a minute or two into watching the video and the most recently opened Explorer window will move into the foreground interrupting the video.
The only way to stop this behavior is to close all Explorer windows while watching a video or working in another application. Annoying as heck. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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2023-06-29T20:17:04+00:00 Thanks, James. Appreciate that!
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Anonymous
2023-06-28T10:41:04+00:00 I think Windows 11 is so far doing only yearly feature upgrades (compared to what Windows 10 did a few years back for Semi-Annual upgrades).
So next one should be 23H2 and no 23H1 :)
The number 22H2 stands for year 22 second half. 23H1 would mean year 23 first half. 23H2 is year 23 half 2, when the update is released it is then second half of the year, so it is then 23H2.
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Anonymous
2023-06-28T10:33:07+00:00 I think Windows 11 is so far doing only yearly feature upgrades (compared to what Windows 10 did a few years back for Semi-Annual upgrades).
So next one should be 23H2 and no 23H1 :)
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Anonymous
2023-06-28T10:25:39+00:00 All (win11) computers here are currently on 22H2 - are MS skipping 23H1 and going straight to 23H2 :)