Windows 10: Win 10 Dialog boxes are rarely 'on-top' of other windows like they were in Win 7.

I have Windows 10 installed on two devices, a small Asus convertible tablet and my gaming desktop. On both of these, when I am installing something, or doing something that would give me an alert / error window, the 'alert' is almost always UNDER the window of the thing that is causing the alert. This behavior did not happen in Windows 7 or XP to my recollection.


Example: When copying files using Explorer, the file transfer window used to be 'on-top' of the Explorer window you were copying to when you selected that window. Now it can be hidden under other windows. Minor annoyance.


Example. You are about to go off to work, have a file being edited in a program. You save it and It has to process the file before saving. If an alert shows up, say asking to confirm a file overwrite the existing file, it USED to pop up on top of all current widows. Now it stays under all other windows. I have breakfast, get ready to leave for work, thinking that the file is processing and saving in a sync folder so I can use the edited file at work. (it should only take a few minutes to process) Out of curiosity, I close the editing program, only to find a hidden dialog box underneath several windows. The alert did not rise on top of the other windows, so I did not know by looking at the screen that there was an issue. Very annoying.


Is this normal behavior? is there a way to have dialog pop-ups be 'on-top' of other windows anymore? I never used Windows 8.1, does it exhibit this behavior? (I could get a Win 8.1 licence and downgrade if it is the only way to fix it, or just go back to Win 7 for another year until EOL in 2020)

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Dialog Boxes constantly flash on and off

Hi,

To check Windows 10 Build version you may follow the steps below:

• Win + R. Open up the run command with the Win + R key combo.
• Launch winver. Simply type in winver into the run command text box and hit OK. That is it. You should now see a dialog screen revealing the OS build and registration information.

Thank you.

 

Win 7 and Win 10 on network

I have home network with separate modem, router, and WAP's. My Windows 7 computer does NOT list the Windows 10 computers on network computer list but the Windows 10 computers network list DO list the Windows 7 computer.

Turned off firewalls, gave permissions, shared drives. Nothing allows Win 7 computer to access the Win 10 computers.

Any suggestions for a fix?

 

Win 7 and Win 10 on network

Thank you. Troubleshooter did not work. I ran all the listed commands in order and that also did not work.

None of the Windows 10 computers on my home network are on the network list of the Win 7 computer but the Lan connected windows 10 computer does show up on the Windows 7 computer network map.

Any other fixes suggestions would be appreciated?