Windows 10: Windows 11 difficulty to bring a window to the foreground

Discus and support Windows 11 difficulty to bring a window to the foreground in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; This has been an issue for years now. You use the mouse to click on an opened app, and it will not bring that window to the foreground. You'll have to... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by Christopher Staniszewski, Mar 23, 2025.

  1. Windows 11 difficulty to bring a window to the foreground


    This has been an issue for years now. You use the mouse to click on an opened app, and it will not bring that window to the foreground. You'll have to use Alt-Tab to even bring it up to the foreground. If you want to switch to another window that you're also using to work? Don't expect to use the mouse, you'll end up having to use alt-tab. When is this going to be fixed? And please don't say that it's not an issue being reported on. There are at least two other forums that are complaining about this same issue, dating back to 2022. So, can you guys actually work on this and let us know when it

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    Christopher Staniszewski, Mar 23, 2025
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    After upgrading to Windows 11, I have a difficulty to bring a window to the foreground. For example, I have multiple browser windows open. With Alt-TAB I can select one of the others, and then it comes to the foreground.

    If I hoover over the icon in the taskbar, a small picture of each of the open windows appears. When I then click on one of those small pictures, the window should come to the top. Often it does, and often it does not. I can't find the pattern.

    When the application is not open, clicking on its icon (attached to the taskbar), open's the app and brings it to the foreground. However, once opened, there is only one window of that app open. Instead of clicking on the picture, just clicking on the icon in the taskbar, should bring the opened app to the foreground. It often does, but it also often does not. I can click on the icon, or click on it's picture, but in that case the window is never brought to the foreground. I need to use ALT-TAB, or click on a small visible part of the window, to get it to come to the foreground.

    This is very irritating, it slows my work down considerably.

    Is this a known bug, or is there something I can do to fix this?
     
    Pieter van Kampen (pieter), Mar 23, 2025
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  3. HRao Win User
    Windows 11 difficulty to bring a window to the foreground

    Same issue noticed on day-2 after the upgrade from Windows 10 to 11. This needs to be fixed. As described, Alt+tab works, but clicking on the taskbar icon does NOT activate or bring the window foreground.
     
  4. Windows 11 difficulty to bring a window to the foreground

    Difficulty to bring a window to the foreground

    When the application is not open, clicking on its icon (attached to the taskbar), open's the app and brings it to the foreground. However, once opened, there is only one window of that app open. Instead of clicking on the picture, just clicking on the icon in the taskbar, should bring the opened app to the foreground. It often does, but it also often does not. I can click on the icon, or click on it's picture, but in that case the window is never brought to the foreground. I need to use ALT-TAB, or click on a small visible part of the window, to get it to come to the foreground.

    I tried the Ease of Access Center thing but that option wasn't checked for me to begin with.

    Please help earliest as different software I've to use together along with different folders for my professional works and using widows+Tab key is tough to use considering number of apps & folders.
     
    DEBOLINE MITRA, Mar 23, 2025
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