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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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-22T20:27:52+00:00

    not to mention typing away only to look up and see you have been typing into who knows what ether space.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-22T20:36:16+00:00

    The same Nowhere etherspace where our comments posted here are going... No one is ever going to fix this problem and no one at microsoft cares.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-22T20:39:50+00:00

    It's especially fun when you look up and you've typed a password God knows where...

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-23T04:04:33+00:00

    Don't know if it's worth chiming in.

    Windows 11 Pro 22H2 22621.1702

    Intel

    nVidia GeForce RTX 2070

    Upgraded from Windows 10 Pro

    Streaming this computer to laptop via Parsec on a daily basis

    When the issue occurs, it's all my Explorer windows at once, not just one.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-23T06:05:38+00:00

    When the issue occurs, it's all my Explorer windows at once, not just one.

    That's what happens with mine too. Earlier, most of us just report the window pop-up. That's because at first, we might just have 1 window open to begin with. But after a while, we will certainly see that however many explorer windows are in the background, they can/will all pop-up at once to the foreground.

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