Windows 10: Background task comes forward when same task is opened

Hello,Lately I am encountering a very annoying bug/software change. At work I have installed a fresh installation of Windows 10. When I open the following apps in specified order:1. Word opening a document Document12. Explorer3. Word opening a different document Document2The Word tasks both come to foreground and the positions are in the following order from most foreground to background:1. Word - Document22. Word - Document13. ExplorerThis breaks the way how recent tasks were handled in the past and the ALT+TAB is useless in switching between 2 applications as this order can sometimes c

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Cortana background task host

Hi,

Cortana background task host is a standard Windows process that may affect a computer's performance. For us to properly assist you in disabling this task, we would like to confirm the following information:

• How and when did the issue start?
• Have you made any recent changes to your device prior to this happening?
• Aside from attempting to disable the Search bar, have you tried any troubleshooting steps to resolve the concern?

Let us know these details so we can move forward to rectifying your query.

 

Background tasks

I am using nokia lumia 800.

No background tasks, only home screen, seen when press and hold "Back" arrow.



Then i go into settings > applications, tap "background tasks", tap "advanced"...shows a list of apps.



Question: Are there background tasks actively running?

 

Background tasks no-longer running

So I've now got my background tasks working again with the help of people at the WPCentral forum. They advised that I uninstall apps that can use background tasks, whether those tasks are enabled or not. The theory is that Windows Phone has some kind of
issue with there being too many apps installed that register the use of background tasks and that disabling the background tasks does not help.



So here's what I did:

• Go to settings --> swipe left --> background tasks --> advanced.
• Make a list of all of the apps installed that can run background tasks.
• Uninstall as many of those apps as possible. In my case, I had quite a few apps that I actually rarely use.
• Restart the phone.

That's it. The background tasks for the apps I actually want to be able to run then just started running again. One person in the thread suggested you can also work around the problem by careful configuration of each app to disable background operations
you don't actually want, without having to uninstall them.



For more detail you can see the WPCentral forum thread here:
http://forums.wpcentral.com/windows-phone-8/240483-background-tasks-no-longer-running.html.