mjm953

Now, even after removing the hotfixes that BigAkita said, the minimizing problem I had before has somehow come back.

When I open programs, full screen (games) in particular, it just minimizes without me doing anything and stays that way. Then I click the taskbar button to open it back up it just minimizes again right away. Pausing and closing F@H still doesn't help.

AntiM

Quick question. Are you using the "windows" button as a control key in any of these games? Cuz in XP that will often minimize a game.

mjm953

no no no, I don't even get into the game at all, the program starts, screen goes blank for a milisecond and minimizes. Same process when I try to maximize it.

TekXoID

Try booting with ALL startup programs, including F@H, off. Going straght to gaming.

Krostillian

I get that same issue with one of my games ... I have to Alt+Tab to get it to come back up. Frustrating stuff!!

mjm953

Thats the problem though.... even when I use alt + tab or anything else it wont stay open...

lpdodger

What games, and what version of Windows?

aaronrkelly

I have that problem with NFSU and XP - however restarting and doing nothing before I play the game usually fixes it.

mjm953

Virtualy any and every full screen game with the exception of Half Life mods (ie counter strike day of defeat etc) do it and I'm on XP.

Blargg

I was having the same problem, every game was minimized to the desktop every few minutes or so.
The fix that worked for me was to disable Norton Antivirus before playing a game.
Found it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?query=game&dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.games

Look under 'Games Minimize to Task Bar For No Apparent Reason'.

HoJo

I have the same problem sometimes also. I find logging off and back on again fixes it. Sorry, don't know what's causing it.

Evil3lf

It's F@H when you open into the visual thing all versions to my knowledge will minimize a full screen game whenever you have opened the F@H gui. Just don't open it or run it as a system process.

Blargg

Nevermind, I guess disabling Norton didn't work, I still have the problem.
Rebooting sometimes stops it though.
I found somewhere on the internet that removing 4 windows hotfixes:
KB828035, kb823182, kb824141 and kb825119 would solve this,
Don't know if I need to remove them though.

Dex

I know this is an old thread, but i figured theres no point starting a new one... Anyway im currently having this problem, what the hell do i have running here that makes all my games minimize ever 1/2 mins?!?

Nerdz

messenger plus? maybe...whats wbload? try closing that.

fraps too.

Dex

Tried shutting down everything that wasnt 100% essential...and that didnt work.

Its working now, but i had to do a system restore from the end of May

DarkLeagueTech

I have the srunning Black Hawk Down. I would End task something (damn near randomly) write it on a list. After Several End tasking I would find something that would be doing it (or a series of things) Unfortunately I lost the list. If you were to try this prosess, though leangthy, it would narrow down your options. If you do go about this way save your list!!!!! Don't be stupid and place it in a Drive with thousands of Documents and not remember the name or location (me).

Quote: Originally Posted by Blargg I was having the same problem, every game was minimized to the desktop every few minutes or so. The fix that worked for me was to disable Norton Antivirus before playing a game. Found it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?query=game&dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.games Look under 'Games Minimize to Task Bar For No Apparent Reason'.