Windows 7 Forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for Microsoft Windows 7 Computers such as Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a. My full screen applications have started randomly minimizing. I would have guessed this is some kind of anti-virus or update thing, but I can't pin it down. A free utility to minimize all the open applications and games in the taskbar.

I have a problem where, at random intervals during playing a game, it minimizes to the desktop. I can restore it again, but it is extremely irritating. I don't have AVG, never had, my graphics drivers are up to date and my card is supported by all the games. I've scanned, but my PC is virus clean. This happened a few months ago as well, but it went away.

Now it's happening again. It's not isolated to Steam games, but it seems to happen more frequently in them. I've killed Steam while playing non-Steam games, but no difference. I have disabled almost all of the automatic start up programs, leaving only those that keep my PC running. I don't know if it's just me pressing a button or if it's really happening, but it seems like the task manager process list moves when it minimizes, so maybe a program that runs and then closes? My system: - Geforce GTS 250 - 4 GB RAM - Core i5 650 3.2 Ghz - Windows 7 Professional 32-bit I don't know why it went away, and came back.

Nikon D5000 Dx Manual Load. Please help!!!! Ive tried without Aero, but it still happens. Craked Windwos 8. It started happening frequently when I installed Skyrim, but has happened previously to Skyrim as well and went away after some time. I'm fully updated and I turn my Norton antivirus off during gaming.

What can be doing this? I'm starting to think that the only fix is a reformat, but I really don't want to do that. Is there some program I can run that logs what programs are coming active? That way I can run it while playing the game so it can tell me what program executes when the game minimizes. Would a HighJackThis log help me find the problem? What other suggestions do you have?

Could it be a graphics card, CPU or RAM fault?

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