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

As an IT person - I openly admit "Broken" IS a trigger word. I hate thinking that something I've built doesn't work correctly. It triggers me to Do My Job and fix the problem. And then, I Thank the person who pointed it out. Coding is a big messy world, things will break - people who report the errors are Helping you out! There's ZERO excuse for this bug being left uncorrected for so long. There are millions of people whose workflows involve having a window open in the background. It's not even a topic worth debating. Someone at MS is being lazy and/or living in denial about their own work/skills/abilities. Just get over it and fix it. Do your job.

Thank you for your response. I think what surprised me at r/microsoft was how quickly respondents attacked me personally right out of the gate. Again, I don't know how many of these personal attacks came from Microsoft professionals, but they did help to confirm my concern that something is amiss.

I've been using Windows since version 3.1 was released in 1992, and while I've seen a lot of issues, never have I encountered one so productivity-impeding as this.

I recently discussed this with some folks on another forum dedicated Microsoft tech support. I don't know what their relationship is with Microsoft, but they were aggressively defensive of Microsoft to the point of incivility, insisting that despite so many users reporting this issue here on the Microsoft Community Forum, this problem was yet just a "bug" affecting a tiny percentage of Windows 11 users; they themselves claimed to be unaware of it. As one respondent put it, they hadn't experienced the issue, nor had any of their "friends."

When I suggested that this was more than a bug, that so far as I was concerned, Windows 11 was broken, they went full ad hominem using words like "ranting" and "idiot" to characterize me. Again, I do not know whether any of these people have any professional connection to Microsoft, but they sure as heck didn't want want to hear criticism of Microsoft or Windows 11.

Did they poll ALL of their "friends?" (Or perhaps they don't have too many friends...).

It's not like the 522 users who "all have the same question" are hallucinating. Good grief.

Which forum, so I know to avoid it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/o22lfc/microsoft_official_support_thread/

So Microsoft's "Official" Support Thread is hosted at Reddit, and not a domain hosted by microsoft.com... got it! (not you... them...)

Any Reddit whose pinned post begins as follows, "Microsoft Listens (sic) This (sic) thread was created in order to facilitate easy-to-access support for our Reddit subscribers" is probably not worth anyone's time.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/o22lfc/microsoft_official_support_thread/

So Microsoft's "Official" Support Thread is hosted at Reddit, and not a domain hosted by microsoft.com... got it! (not you... them...)

Any Reddit whose pinned post begins as follows, "Microsoft Listens (sic) This (sic) thread was created in order to facilitate easy-to-access support for our Reddit subscribers" is probably not worth anyone's time.

Interesting. It wouldn't have occurred to me that a forum with as high a profile as r/microsoft wouldn't be officially sanctioned. If not officially sanctioned by Microsoft, then tacitly by virtue of its existence, but maybe I'm being naive.

On the other hand, under r/microsoft Rules it reads: "1. Microsoft-related content (discussion pertaining to our products, news or events) only:"

I am replying to the wrong post but earlier today was some comment that someone from Microsoft implied that customers close the Explorer Window as a normal protocol? Whomever said that should be fired.

Obviously they are not power users.

Maybe they never heard of people actually using the product for productive use of various files within the Explorer Window.