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Title: Unknown process bringing Windows back to focus? Post by: phubans on November 23, 2009, 11:07:36 AM Hey guys, I thought that since you all play games you might have encountered this problem before and might have the solution. There seems to be a process that keeps bringing Windows Explorer back into focus, which is a major problem when I'm trying to play games because they end up minimizing and in some cases (like Fallout 3) I can't get back into the game.
This is a problem for obvious reasons, and I haven't figured out why this is happening (it's also a recent problem). My video driver is up to date and I've scanned with AVG and Adaware and it would appear that I don't have any spyware on my computer, so I really have no idea what's causing it. And I can't really track the process with task manager because it happens so quickly that by the time I check task manager it's hard to know which process was to blame. Here's what my task manager looks like: (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/phubans/Untitled-1-1.png) Do any of these look like they could be the culprit? Title: Re: Unknown process bringing Windows back to focus? Post by: Imagineergames on November 23, 2009, 11:43:16 AM Does this help? http://www.secguru.com/link/how_to_identify_unknown_processes_in_windows
What I do whenever that sort of crap happens, is to just Google the process name. I usually get two or three good results right away. Title: Re: Unknown process bringing Windows back to focus? Post by: i wanna be the guy on November 23, 2009, 01:56:50 PM slightly off topic, but is firefox really supposed to be using that much?
because god damn opera is like a fucking feather compared to that Title: Re: Unknown process bringing Windows back to focus? Post by: C.A. Silbereisen on November 23, 2009, 02:07:47 PM Yeah, Firefox is a resource hog. Granted, he probably has several tabs open...
Title: Re: Unknown process bringing Windows back to focus? Post by: MindEraser on November 23, 2009, 02:12:55 PM slightly off topic, but is firefox really supposed to be using that much? Yes, firefox is generally more hoggy than other browsers I've used. But, having a LOT of tabs open, I've managed to get opera using 900mb of ram before.because god damn opera is like a fucking feather compared to that About the OP's problem: The only advice I can really give you is to kill off processes 1 by 1 until explorer stops popping up. (I would not attempt to stop your antivirus, and if you feel so compelled, save it for last) Title: Re: Unknown process bringing Windows back to focus? Post by: Cheater‽ on November 23, 2009, 05:26:18 PM Man, this reminds me of the time my antivirus was causing games to crash. Having Half Life 2 (thanks, Hroon!) not working led me to a troubleshooting wiki, and it turns out my antivirus was causing problems even while not running. It fucks things up so much I had to uninstall it.
It wasn't AVG though. Actually, I think this doesnt have anything to do with this topic i need water/ Title: Re: Unknown process bringing Windows back to focus? Post by: phubans on November 23, 2009, 10:08:19 PM Well I think (or at least hope) the problem is solved. AVG did a scan today and found some stuff that was removed. I played L4D2 for a couple hours tonight without having any problems. I guess I'll know for sure when I play Fallout 3.
BTW, any TIGers playing L4D2 on PC? I'm on Steam as phubans :) Title: Re: Unknown process bringing Windows back to focus? Post by: phubans on November 25, 2009, 09:37:45 PM Damn, I must have spoke too soon. This happened to me twice while playing L4D2 tonight :( Weird, because it wasn't happening last night... Urgh!
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