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Question

Most PC games minimize every 5 minutes

May 5, 2020 1:01AM PDT

Hey guys. So in the past two weeks almost every video game I play will lose its full screen and shrink to minimized or windowed. No hardware changes, tried all my virus effects off, updated all drivers, no windows updates pending. Any help would be appreciated. This isn't stuck keys cause I use a controller for some of them.

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Re: minimize
May 5, 2020 2:06AM PDT

That's strange.
If it continues after you go back with System Restore to before this started or to your latest image backup that is still correct, it's hardware. If it stops then, it's solved, until you repeat whatever you did to cause it.

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FullScreen
May 5, 2020 11:37PM PDT

Do they shrink back to minimized or windowed mode after you change it back to fullscreen? Sometimes when there is an update, it happens to my game too. But after changing it back to fullscreen, it doesn't pop back into minimized of windowed mode after.