Windows 10: While playing game in full screen mode, game randomly minimizes to taskbar

Playing Destiny 2 via Steam in full screen mode and occasionally, maybe every 10 or 15 minutes the game will minimize to the taskbar. I can bring it back up but it's extremely annoying and happens frequently. Things I've tried to fix the problem include:- Turning off Game Mode- Turning off notifications- Turning on focus mode- Updated to latest NVIDIA graphics drivers- All available Windows Updates are appliedUsing Event Viewer, I captured the 1 minute time period around when my game minimized most recently. I noted my game minimized at about 5/9/2023 8:47 PM pacific time and so the events I

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Games randomly minimize (Win10)

Hello

I don't know when exactly this started to be an issue, but basically all games I play in full screen, whether it is a Steam game, a Uplay game or even my old NFS Most Wanted from 2005 games just randomly minimize. I have no clue what the issue is. I normally
play all my games in Windowed mode, because I run a two monitor setup, but some games dont offer a fullscreen window mode.

In most games this isnt a big problem, because they pause anyway, or I can just spam pause while resuming, while the minimized games seems to pause, without opening the pause menu. But unfortunately Dark Souls is a big exception, because the great sadistic
minds of the Souls devs didnt think about implementing a pause menu. Therefore the game keeps running when this happens, and ,especially in boss fights, where one combo of a Boss can onehit you, it is extremely frustrating to die in cause of this issue.

Greetings Potestas

My Pc Setup:

two monitors

16GB Ram

Intel i5.4690K CPU non overclocked

NvidiaGTX 970

 

Games are being minimized

my games i play started minimizing randomly a month ago and i have no idea what is causing it. It started only doing it during it in a couple of games but now its happening in everything i play.

Ive tried:

• Updating all my drives and such
  
• closing unneeded apps in the background
  
• Completely unplugging my second monitor
  
• Turing off notifications, the news and weather tool bar
  
• moving my toolbar to the top of my screen
  
• turning off the windows gaming mode
  
• used a window logger to see if a program was causing it but it showed nothing
  

I've tried so many things and asked so many people and ive gotten nowhere. I made no big changes at the time is started so could an update of done it? could it be my hardware causing it?

 

games keep minimizing to taskbar

Do you have a key on your keyboard like i circled in the pics? If yes, point at any file on your desktop and tap it, you'll see that right click menu popup. Any chance you are bumping that key?