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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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Both of the machines I tried on did stand still for like at least 2 hours each and only used one of the methods on each of them. The computers where not AD joined either, clean install of windows 11. So explorer did show up again without doing
gpupdate /force?
Yep. Bug was still persistent after trying both methods without trying gpupdate.
Fact is, it is exactly defined, when this bug appear, it only appears for fresh, untouched explorer.exe tasks, so if you minimize it or do close the explorer.exe, nothing will happen. I know this is not a solution, but in my company, I have informed about 6k of Users about this and how to proceed, if they are affected, and since that, no more management power point presentation is interrupted.
So, commenting "fixed, change to W7" is the defiance solution.
If Microsoft is unable to understand the pain of their customers, your next step is a project to change.
Tried both methods. Neither worked. 😕
Both of the machines I tried on did stand still for like at least 2 hours each and only used one of the methods on each of them. The computers where not AD joined either, clean install of windows 11. So explorer did show up again without doing gpupdate /force?
Tried both methods. Neither worked. 😕
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