Windows 10: windows 10 keeps minimizing my games to desktop

/u/magik_koopa990 · May 16, 2022

This just happens recently. If I play a game at Fullscreen, it minimize / alt tab to desktop. If I'm on windowed mode, I see flickering color change on the top of the tab color. I tried solutions like disabling Xbox game bar and rolled back graphics driver.

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MSuser89 · May 16, 2022

games keeps minimizing windows 10

games keeps minimizing windows 10. when I play a game in fullscreen mode it keeps minimizing every few seconds. it doesn't happened playing in windowed mode. im playing with xbox360 controller. happen after a recent windows 10 update. Ive also recently
installed a new videocard. how to fix?

tomdsr · May 16, 2022

games keep minimizing to taskbar

This has never happened before but all of a sudden i am finding that while i am playing any game, it will minimize to the taskbar and the game itself is still in play so i often end up dying since all i see is the desktop and i can't open it back up quick enough to stay alive. Very frustrating. These are all single player campaigns and there is no correlation between what keys i am hitting when it happens. I have thought to look for keyboard combos that minimize windows but it's not that. Windows key is disabled so not that. I have very minimal things running on the background, no firewall or anything. Card is updated. Any ideas?

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I just realized it MAY actually be a certain function doing it. But not sure why. I noticed when the game would minimize the right click menu was on the desktop. So i played some more and sure enough every time the right click menu is there when the game is minimized. So it;s the right mouse button that is bringing up the right click menu on the desktop and causing the game to minimize. What i don't get is why thats happening when the game is open ad should have the mouse's focus. So i tried windowed mode and borderless and still it does it. What could be causing the mouse function to cause it's windows desktop function to trigger when the game is open?

EDIT: and it gets even weirder....i noticed a bunch of desktop shortcuts now nave copies of them on the desktop ! They have the same name but after the name is "-copy" w/o the quotes.
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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?

Michael Tus · May 16, 2022

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.

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