Open programs minimizing randomly

Hi Guys,

One of our Windows 7 64bit machines is randomly minimizing open programs. I've not encountered this before and the Google search results come up with solutions for games only.
I'll give and example;

I'm updating flash at present and it has, without my intervention, minimized itself 3 times in the past 5 minutes. This will happen to all programs, Microsoft and Third Party.

Any idea what's happening here?


Sean

Does anyone have at least some idea? Wild stabs in the dark more than welcome.

Sean

Hi would help if you told us if this is a laptop or desktop. this is going to be a stab in the dark but disconnect the keyboard and see if doing same thing.

It's a Sony VPCL229FG desktop. I've turned the touch screen function off btw, not sure if that will help.
One other thing of note, when the user turns the computer on of a morning the desktop icons are sometime very large.

Mellon Head said:

Have you scanned for malware recently?

I second the keyboard idea. A stuck key might cause problems like this, too.

Yeah, I've used Malwarebytes and adwcleaner.

BSeanD said:

It's a Sony VPCL229FG desktop. I've turned the touch screen function off btw, not sure if that will help.
One other thing of note, when the user turns the computer on of a morning the desktop icons are sometime very large.

sounds like you are using windows 8 on that computer. sounds like they are booting to safe mode when the icons are very large.

oscer1 said:

BSeanD said:

It's a Sony VPCL229FG desktop. I've turned the touch screen function off btw, not sure if that will help.
One other thing of note, when the user turns the computer on of a morning the desktop icons are sometime very large.

sounds like you are using windows 8 on that computer. sounds like they are booting to safe mode when the icons are very large.

No it's a windows 7 machine, 64bit, and it's not going into safe mode.

have you checked the file system? SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker