Computer randomly switches to desktop while gaming (almost as though I alt-tabbed)

Learjet

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Sometimes when I am playing a game, it randomly minimizes and I find myself at the desktop frantically alt-tabbing to get back to what was going on. I have this problem approx once every few hours of gaming. It is very random and unpredictable. It has happened in Path of Exile, Battlefield 3, and League of Legends..(basically all the games I have been playing the past few months)

I am running Win7 64 on a phenom 965, radeon 9750 with 8GB on system memory on a SSD with a HDD for storage. I have installed new graphics drivers and it did not solve the problem. I believe these problems have been happening since I formatted the PC with the new graphics card and SSD a few months ago.

I can't see how this would be a hardware issue. It is becoming increasingly frustrating because I can't imagine what might be causing it. The only thing I can consider at this point is swapping out a different graphics card or reformatting the system.
 

Learjet

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Should I list my processes and go from there?
"Frantically" because the games are online, they do not pause.
 

Archangel133

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I'm getting this as well now, it's been happening for the last few weeks. I attempted a clean boot and couldn't find what the problem was, I even did a complete re-install of windows 7 since there was nothing really important and it continues to happen while gaming. I've made sure everything is updated and that there are no virus' or spyware, yet it still happens randomly and I'll alt+tab like crazy getting back to the game, but it switches back just as fast leaving me frustrated and wanting to break this computer.