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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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You can force the process in a CMD with "gpupdate /force".
GPO will be triggered any 90 minutes.So, if the GPO is the issue, this should also happen if you force them.
Thanks for suggesting that Michael! I just tried that, after using the 'make-me-admin' on our system here. No pop-ups. But was definitely worth a try.
After what i have seen, it has something to do with group policies. I have checked event viewer multiple times the moment the popup happens and i have always seen something with group policies be the newest events in event viewer. The worst part is, a computer checks for policy updates multiple times a day, even when the computer is not even connected to an AD server!
Nice information! If that has something to do with group policies, then I wonder if Microsoft or somebody can provide directions about what we can do to group polices to stop the pop-up behaviour once and for all. Thanks for posting about that.
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.
3 for 3, exact timing,
"The Group Policy settings for the user were processed successfully. There were no changes detected since the last successful processing of Group Policy."
I'll stop spamming now... seems fairly apparent it's related to the application of group policy (for me) even though nothing is changing.
So i just checked the event viewer when this happened to me just right now. This happened on my work computer that is connected to AD DS and Azure AD.
For me at least, what you found seems to be valid. Maybe something is wrong with the GPO update or something?
Thank you for the info and sharing. I tried to follow up via the links you posted, but https://aka.ms/AAjglx2 simply opens Microsoft Bing, and https://aka.ms/AAi70bz opens the Feedback Hub with the message: "Your account doesn't have access to this feedback."
That said, like everyone else I just want Microsoft to fix this. All day long I work at my computer (I'm a computer graphics animator) and all day long Explorer windows keep interrupting my work.
