Windows 10: Game minimising in Windows 10

I recently built my own PC over the winter season which I had an unactivated copy of Windows 10 on for about a week or two which was working fine. I then activated the software and now I seem to be encountering a problem where most games that I am playing (mainly from steam) keep minimising at arbitrary times while I play.


I was following many of the steps from https://windowsreport.com/full-screen-game-keeps-minimizing/#7

Which claimed that following these 10 steps would "Fix" the problem:

1. Check GPU drivers
2. Kill background applications
3. Disable Game Mode
4. Disable Action Center notifications
5. Run as admin and in a different compatibility mode
6. Give game’s process a higher CPU priority
7. Disable dual-GPU
8. Scan for viruses
9. Update Windows
10. Show taskbar on all displays for multi-display setup

I have tried a few of these steps (1,2,3,8,9) with no luck! Just wondering if anyone else has had and found a solution to this problem, any info is appreciated.

:)

 

minimise single window keyboard shortcut


So setpoint with an anywhere mouse has a minimise shortcut option to associate with a button on the mouse, works fine. this is with my wireless anywhere mouse

but g400 with logitech gaming software, there is no minimise option, and no keyboard shortcut minimises just one window !

so tilting
i use my two thumb buttons as minimise and close window, it makes working in windows a lot smoother/faster

any suggestions on this unable to minimise shortcut option?

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Games keep minimising .

This problem only started after upgrading from Win 7 to Win 10.Three games are involved.Train Simulator, MS Flight, and Sail Simulator.

On Full Screen they all keep minimising to Taskbar every 30 seconds or so. I can stop this in Train Sim and Sail Sim by changing to Windowed Mode.The same can be done with Flight, but cannot enlarge to fill screen, and too small to play properly.

Have had a look at Task Manager, but so many things are running I would have no idea what to stop(or what is safe to stop) in order to see what task may be causing the problem.Have tried stopping a few things like Anti Virus, Adobe Updater,etc but to no
avail

Can anyone suggest anything. P .Alt+Enter does not activate Full Screen on Win 10