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
    2023-05-23T16:23:19+00:00

    Maybe we all should tell the Artificial Intelligence in Bing to send a note to all Microsoft Developers to fix this thing and to keep sending notes until it is fixed.

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-02T19:57:45+00:00

    Still catching up (I'm on page 7 of 14), but it just happened to me and I immediately went to event viewer and in the System log, at almost the exact time it occurred, I have the following Informational entry:

    System Log: Event ID 1501, Source: GroupPolicy (Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy)

    "The Group Policy settings for the user were processed successfully. There were no changes detected since the last successful processing of Group Policy."

    Now... this likely means nothing to/for home users or those without group policy, however, I believe even consumer versions of Windows have a "local" group policy, which... may coincide?

    Also, notably, the whole screen refreshed when explorer foreground-ed itself. I even noticed desktop icons reloading/refreshing.

    Shot in the dark, thanks for reading.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-01-30T01:32:11+00:00

    I also happen to trigger Windows Explorer's focus while watching a video locally...

    Weird bug if you ask me.

    Here's to hoping somebody at Microsoft comes up with a fix for this weird bug.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-11T19:15:41+00:00

    Hello! I too suffer from this annoying bug. I also use Win 22H2 on a NVMe with a Geforce 3090.

    It would be quite hard to make a video of this random event.

    I hope there will be a fix soon.

    cheers

    TR0N

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