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    Steam games keep minimizing randomly

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Ferrari353, Jun 3, 2012.

  1. Ferrari353

    Ferrari353 Notebook Evangelist

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    Recently, when I've been playing games in Steam (fullscreen), they minimize randomly, sometimes when I'm actively doing things, other times when I'm just sitting and watching.

    I read here: [Solved] Random game minimize - PC-Gaming - General that his problem was caused by OneNote (which I have), so is there any way to stop this from happening without uninstalling OneNote? I killed OneNote while I was playing, yet it still continued.

    Thanks!
     
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  2. Baka

    Baka (・ω・)

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    Might there be other software that constant gives pop up notifications? ._. Sometimes clicking when the notifications appear just minimizes any games instantly
     
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  3. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    what antivirus are you using.
    if its avast it has a gaming mode with tick box to stop this happening. im guessing other av might have something similar.
     
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  4. HTWingNut

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    Some machines have a popup for things like caps lock, etc that cause games to minimie.
     
    HTWingNut, Jun 3, 2012
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  5. Ferrari353

    Ferrari353 Notebook Evangelist

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    I use MSE. Also, when it minimizes, there's never a popup and sometimes it happens when I'm copy clicking or typing or anything.

    Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2
     
    Ferrari353, Jun 3, 2012
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