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    Tabbing out of games causes my background windows to minimize- HELP!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by redsfan7035, Apr 7, 2013.

  1. redsfan7035

    redsfan7035 Notebook Geek

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    Hey everybody,

    When I'm playing any kind of game in Fullscreen Mode and I tab out it will make whatever other windows I have open, minimize and then maximize again. Not fully minimize them into the Start Menu at the bottom of the page, but just like resize down and up, it also then makes the pinging noise. Any ideas?

    Another issue I'm having, is when I open a new program or something, like recycle bin for instance, it will open with half of it off the right side of my screen. I can still drag it back to the center of my screen but when it first appears all the options, minimize, maximize, and close, are all cut off on the end. Any ideas?

    Thanks for any help, I've had these problems for a while but no idea what they are and they're just really getting to be annoying.
     
  2. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    Change the resolution on your games to a higher one. What's the resolution that you are using on your desktop?
     
  3. redsfan7035

    redsfan7035 Notebook Geek

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    Hey Luis, I'm using max on both which is 1920 x 1080 :/