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
    2023-10-31T06:56:47+00:00

    I'm having the same issue. Windows 11 Pro Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621 on a Lenovo Thinkpad P1.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-30T07:07:49+00:00

    I'm getting this issue also and its extremely frustrating when playing a game or working on another app and it brings my file explorer window to the front.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-10-27T06:23:03+00:00

    We also experience this issue on most of our laptops running windows 11 in our company and have been for months.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-21T20:19:06+00:00

    I confirm that I have this issue on both my personal (ASUS Rog with SSD and RTX 3060) and work (HP G460 with SSD and integrated GPU Ryzen 5) laptops.
    On the first I have Windows 11 Pro 22621, on the second I'm not sure, but I would guess Windows 11 Enterprise same version (I'll edit the post on Monday).

    I'll also file the issue from the hub.

    Hope they'll really solve this (and the one about the wifi/audio/battery panel not opening).

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