Games Keep Minizing

c94w

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Every game I have played in the past has been fine.
But recently the game, no matter what it is even if it worked before this started keep minimizing to the task bar same with any program I am running even now on google chrome keeps going. while there's no crashing its just really annoying just wondering if anyone has had this problem and if they know how solve it or at least stop it happening every few minutes.
Cheers and any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

rsmith13

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That happened a lot when I had Win XP. Turned out to be caused by Windows Update. Try turning auto update off and see if that corrects the problem. There are programs like Game_Booster that will turn update off when you run a game and back on when you quit.
 

tinmann

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The same thing would happen to me, when playing games they would minimize to the tray. It turned out to be the TP-Link wireless adapters software. If I closed it entirely the problem went away but if I left it running even minimized it would make my games default to desktop. It's probably an application running in the background.