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Windows 8.1 Focus Stolen from Full Screen Games

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  • Windows 8
  • Games
  • Focus
October 5, 2014 1:55:18 PM

Hello,
I feel like this must have been an issue that has come up in Windows 7 or 8 because I don't remember this happening in the past.

When I am playing games in full screen mode, some of them will let the focus get stolen by other apps. For instance, Diablo 3 will lose focus whenever google calendar running in chrome pops up an alert. Last night, I lost half an hour of orc smashing in shadow of mordor because an app that was scheduled to launch encountered a problem and popped up a dialog box to tell me about it. SOM did not recover from the interruption.

So, are there any tricks or helpers out there that can avoid this?

Thank you,
Ben

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