Windows 10: Windows 11 - New Windows/Apps Default to Background instead of Foreground

This has been asked a few times I'm sure. Other tips I've seen either aren't active anymore, don't work, or were never confirmed to work. I feel like I saw some setting somewhere that would let me change the default open to foreground instead of background. It's very frustrating when I'm using something like the Snipping Tool and it defaults to the background - or some small dialogue gets hidden and locks up everything. Anyone have any tips on how to get this to revert to Windows 10 functionality? When I open an app it will sometimes default to the background instead of the foreground. D

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An app is suddenly running in background instead of foreground as it should

I run Windows 10.

When I tried to start an app it suddenly started to run in the background instead of foreground as it should, as seen in the Taskmanager.

It is an "external" app and is thus not listed in the Settings-privacy- background apps list

I want to force it back to run as foreground app again.

Is it possible?

 

New window opens in foreground instead of background

Hi,

I recently got a new laptop (running windows 10) and when i click on any file on Windows Explorer, it opens up the new window in the foreground. For Example, this gets quite tedious when I want to open up multiple Powerpoints to study, when i click on a powerpoint
it opens up on top of the windows explorer so I always have to open the windows explorer up again.

On my old laptop (running Windows 10) when I clicked on a powerpoint from Windows Explorer the powerpoint opened up in the background, so it was a lot easier to open up multiple files without switching back and forth between windows explorer and each Powerpoint
file every time I click on a powerpoint file.

I was wondering what setting I can change to get any files (videos, powerpoints, word files, and etc) to open up in the background when I am using file explorer instead of on top of windows explorer.

Thank you

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.