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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.
Microsoft Windows 11 Home Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621
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This problem is still happening Microsoft and to be honest it's frustrating. To be playing a game or app and have Windows 11 go nope sorry going to interrupt what u were doing to bring up the File explorer cause reasons. I can't believe in a year's time you can't nail down what's causing the Windows explorer to pop up in the foreground. I should've stayed on Windows 10 man.....
Well, that's the oddity about this situation here. I didn't expect that this issue could still actually be happening about a year or so later.
What's especially concerning is the severity of detriment that this bug can cause, especially surrounding privacy issues (not to mention productivity issues).
Imagine you're giving a presentation with PowerPoint full-screen, and all of the sudden an explorer window with thumbnails of images you would prefer not to be seen commandeers the foreground, or worse, contains patient medical information, in violation of federal law (I'm looking at you HIPAA).
Maybe some folks in this thread don't need to imagine...
Uggh... two steps forward and three steps back. Microsoft, please fix the "Windows" feature of Microsoft "Windows" 🙏
This issue is ridiculous, and one imagines, wouldn't be difficult to fix...
Step 1: What's causing the pop-over? (seems like a group policy refresh issue to a number of people in this thread)
Step 2: Fix it...
Unfortunately I don't think anyone from Microsoft actually monitors this forum. Meanwhile, I've reported this issue multiple times via Microsoft's Feedback Hub app (comes with Windows).
Several weeks ago I posted this issue to Microsoft's "official" technical support subreddit at r/microsoft and received a rather, cool, if not outright hostile response. In so many words I was told that because so few users are experiencing this, and because it's otherwise a "minor" issue, there was no urgency in fixing it. Some of the responses went so far as to suggest that the real issue was myself and that I should learn to relax.
If this is indicative of Microsoft culture as a whole, then sadly it's a window into what we're up against.
The same ting keeps happening to me its so annoying it happens every 2 mins it seems like Microsoft can you fix this please.
