Windows is tabbing me out and I can't work out why

Roadkillv1 · 26 Sep 2021 at 20:24

Any time I'm playing a game windows will randomly tab me out to my desktop and make it a pain to get back in. The program I ran, as you can see, only tells me explorer is doing it. It just tabs me to my desktop, it's frustrating, and I don't know what to try to turn off as I can't work out what it is. It says 'false' under keyboard so it isn't being caused by an alt tab situation occuring somehow but...wtf is?

TriedandTested · 2 Oct 2021 at 08:22

Could be related to xbox game bar. It happens to me on Rocket League. Workaround being the bringing up the gamebar at the start of play (windows+g) and then closing it. I'm Win11 though.

DaleTheWhale · 2 Oct 2021 at 15:26

TriedandTested said:
Could be related to xbox game bar. It happens to me on Rocket League. Workaround being the bringing up the gamebar at the start of play (windows+g) and then closing it. I'm Win11 though.

How weird, I noticed this happening to me recently whilst playing rocket league after 15-20 minutes of play, game stays on screen but needs me to click back into it as if it alt-tabbed. I'll see if opening gamebar fixes it (I'm on latest W10 currently).

TriedandTested · 2 Oct 2021 at 16:08

DaleTheWhale said:
How weird, I noticed this happening to me recently whilst playing rocket league after 15-20 minutes of play, game stays on screen but needs me to click back into it as if it alt-tabbed. I'll see if opening gamebar fixes it (I'm on latest W10 currently).

I bet it does. Solved it for me and prevented the game tabbing out mid match!