Fullscreen games minimize to tray automatically

Hi,

I've got a problem with my Vista Home Premium x64 and haven't found a
solution so far.
My PC started recently to minimize some games to the tray when I start
them.
Those games are:
- Sacred Gold
- Ghost Recon (inlcuding both addons)
- Tom Clancy's HAWX Demo
- Braid Demo

I can't figure out what's causing this...
The problem only started to occur recently - I don't know why. I
uninstalled everything I had installed recently, but to no avail.

My Specs are:
Windows Vista Home Premium x64 (all updates installed)
Core 2 Duo T7200
4 GB Ram
Comodo Firewall (latest version - deactivating/closing doesn't help)
avast Anti Virus (latest version - deactivating/closing doesn't help)

Any tips and / or clues would be much appreciated :-)
FrozenLord


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FrozenLord

Thanks for the tip but unfortunatelly, this isn't the case.

I'm still clueless about why this problem occurs :-(.

Some sites report, that Comodo is causing this or the Skype 4 Beta -
which I have both installed. But deactivating (or exiting) both - which
is recommended on those sites to solve those problems in 100% of the
cases - didn't do anything for me.


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FrozenLord

Is there another program starting up at the same time that is demanding to
be switched to, therefore causing any other windows (i.e. your games) to
minimize?

"FrozenLord" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Thanks for the tip but unfortunatelly, this isn't the case.
>
> I'm still clueless about why this problem occurs :-(.
>
> Some sites report, that Comodo is causing this or the Skype 4 Beta -
> which I have both installed. But deactivating (or exiting) both - which
> is recommended on those sites to solve those problems in 100% of the
> cases - didn't do anything for me.
>
>
> --
> FrozenLord

I had the same problem on vista 32 with some games - the problem was coming
from the mouse which i changed recently...

"Adam Casada" <> a écrit dans le message de
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> Is there another program starting up at the same time that is demanding to
> be switched to, therefore causing any other windows (i.e. your games) to
> minimize?
>
> "FrozenLord" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> Thanks for the tip but unfortunatelly, this isn't the case.
>>
>> I'm still clueless about why this problem occurs :-(.
>>
>> Some sites report, that Comodo is causing this or the Skype 4 Beta -
>> which I have both installed. But deactivating (or exiting) both - which
>> is recommended on those sites to solve those problems in 100% of the
>> cases - didn't do anything for me.
>>
>>
>> --
>> FrozenLord
>

Unfortunatelly, it's neither the mouse (a Logitech RX1000) nor a
different app.
The PC idles when I start up the game and I don't see any app when the
game minimizes that would need my attention.
I've got a Logitech V470, too. So I tried using that mouse and it
didn't help :-(


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FrozenLord

I am having the same problem with my vista (ultimate 32 bit), and I also
couldn't find a solution.

I have noticed that when I start some games, windows gives me a popoup
that says that it had to change my visual theme to basic, not that it
actually solves the problem... I have set my visual theme to windows
basic my self to see if it helps and it doesn't.

I have read on some other forums that some people has started getting
the problem after installing updates.


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I've reinstalled my machine and am using Vista x86 now.
Windows is 100% up to date and the problem hasn't happened again yet.
Vista changes the theme to Basic as soon as you start a fullscreen
game. As far as I know that's Vista's normal behaviour.


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FrozenLord

if anyone wants a quick solution
open the "failed full screen thing'
win+tab to it and right click it
it seems to work on mine
i have the same problem


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sammysamness

oh but you need to assign a win+tab key to another key
like mine is set to left scroll
then you can scroll through and right click


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sammysamness

I _-WAS-_ experiencing this same issue. When I ran games or full screen
applications that would become minimized. Eventually, after some
investigation I found that it was indeed skype causing this issue...

However, _*this_can_be_resolved:_

*_The solution is simple, and will work for all versions of vista... In
SKYPE, go to TOOLS>OPTIONS>GENERAL - and change the 'Visual style of the
window' option to 'classic windows'. This should resolve your issue,
worked for me.

As an extra measure, I also ensured that I set the windows application
setting to run the program minamized. To do this, simply RIGHTCLICK THE
SKYPE ICON ON YOUR DESKTOP OR START MENU > and choose PROPERTIES > and
then from the RUN drop down menu, choose: minamized.


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thomasbill