Vista - 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. As soon as I try to maximize them, they hang or minimize again.
Those games are:
- Sacred Gold
- Ghost Recon (inlcuding both addons)
- Tom Clancy's HAWX Demo
- Braid Demo
- The Maw
- Crysis
- Assassin's Creed
- Warcraft 3 (including The Frozen Throne)

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
GeForce 7900 GTX (I tried Forceware 185.68 and 179.67)
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

One idea I have - you might check the properties of the shortcut you're
using to run the games. If, in the "Shortcut" tab, the "run" option is set
to "minimized", change it to "normal window".

- Adam

"FrozenLord" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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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.

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" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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I had the same problem on vista 32 with some games - the problem was coming
from the mouse which i changed recently...

"Adam Casada" <abcasada@xxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
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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 :-(

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.

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

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