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Programs minimize by them selfs.
Hi all, great forum and lots of good info here.
I tried to search for my problem, but couldn't find anything relevant.
Now to my problem and what I have done so far, to try and solve it, with no success.
Every 30min on the second (yes, I used a stop watch) what ever window is viewed gets deselected. e.g. if I play a game (any game) it is minimized to the taskbar, I can click on it and it maximizes and plays like nothing ever happened until 30 min later. If I watch a movie on youtube in full screen, it changes to a normal window.
If I don't do anything with no window open, the screen flickers for a split second.
I installed W7 Ultimate 64bit (upgrate version) on a drive that used to have WinXP 64 bit (which worked fine) on it. I formated and did a new install. I have another drive with Vista 64 and this problem never happened and when I boot Vista, the problem doesn't happen.
So, I guess I can eliminate failing hardware.
I ran spyware and antivirus programs and nothing was found.
I watched task manager for hours, which ever program/window was the top/selected one, spiked to the top for a split second. I closed everything I possibly could, but it didn't change a thing.
I opened the startup manager and deselected almost everything, still no changes.
I also viewed the event log, trying to find something that happens every 30 min, but couldn't find anything.
I know, I could just reinstall W7, since I still use my Vista, but I rather find out why Win7 is doing this and learn something in the process.
Thank you for any help you can give.