Windows 10: Games keeps minimizing by themselves

Recently I keep having this annoying problem, that all games keep randomly minimizing themselves as if I pressed alt-tab and since some of them can't be minimized without freezing, it is very annoying.

My best guess is that some notification keeps poping up for a fraction of a second, which causes this effect, although I don't see anything. I may be completely wrong of course.


Things I have already tried:

• Switched off all notifications under "Notifications and actions" in general and specifically for each program
• Switched Focus assist to alarms only and activated it for games and times I use PC in
• Turned live tiles off for whole Start menu
• Switched Avast permanently to silent mod
• PC is set to desktop mod and switch to tablet mod is prohibited
• Just to be sure I checked Windows with SFC, no error found
• Downloaded latest update
• Checked whole system with Avast, Spybot and Malwarebytes, no issue found
• MS Office is not installed on my system.

What else can cause this unpredictable behavior? As you can see, I already did some googling.


OS: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit

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Why are my games minimizing when there is no mouse activity or minimizing randomly?

Hi Walter,

To address your concern, we suggest that you refer to StevenN.'s response on this related

thread for some troubleshooting steps.

Regards.

 

Windows 10 games minimizes periodically

Hello,

To understand the issue better, I would like to ask some questions:

• Is the issue particular to a game or all games?
• Do you get any error message?
• Which build is installed in your computer?
• Is the issue occurring with Windows Store games?

I suggest you to update the Graphic card driver by following the steps provided below and check if it helps.

• Press Windows key + X and select Device Manager.
• Expand Display Adapters.
• Right click on the driver and select Update Driver Software.
• Follow the on-screen prompts to update the driver.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted on the status for further assistance.

Thank you.

 

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