Windows 11--most recently opened Explorer window keeps popping up into the foreground

Anonymous
2023-01-01T17:15:47+00:00

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.

Microsoft Windows 11 Home Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-08T21:06:41+00:00

    We'll need to remain patient. A Windows Insider team lead, says no [public] ETA for right now. Sorry. https://twitter.com/brandonleblanc/status/1722293097122660461

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-08T20:39:49+00:00

    Hi all,

    I've opened a ticket with Microsoft about this issue and was told that this issue was found and fixed in this month's insider build. From Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23403 | Windows Insider Blog:

    • Fixed an underlying issue believed to be the cause of File Explorer unexpectedly jumping into the foreground sometimes.

    So, this bug was found and fixed way back in March but has not been deployed outside of Insider builds. The good news is that the agent said it is planned to be released in this month's preview build later this month as well as in all December's cumulative patches.

    Here's hoping it's true...

    Thank you for the information. If it is indeed correct, then that's an example of even more bad, anti-customer behavior by Microsoft; issue is fixed, but they're waiting eight months--or longer--to implement it? What the heck's happened to Microsoft?

    I recently updated to 23H2 and all I got was a lousy Copilot icon in my task bar; I immediately removed it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-08T19:52:47+00:00

    Maybe they are waiting for MSFT to have a higher market can than AAPL ... pretty close ... could be any day now. $2.7-T vs $2.8-T

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-08T18:25:25+00:00

    Hi all,

    I've opened a ticket with Microsoft about this issue and was told that this issue was found and fixed in this month's insider build. From Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23403 | Windows Insider Blog:

    • Fixed an underlying issue believed to be the cause of File Explorer unexpectedly jumping into the foreground sometimes.

    So, this bug was found and fixed way back in March but has not been deployed outside of Insider builds. The good news is that the agent said it is planned to be released in this month's preview build later this month as well as in all December's cumulative patches.

    Here's hoping it's true...

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