Applications automatically minimizing/going out of focus?

LatitudeZ · 05-18-2009, 01:59 PM

Every couple of minutes, my current window is deselected. For example, when Im typing right now, my firefox window just deselects and the words at the top turn faded grey instead of the bright white. Then i have to click the window again to continue typing. This happens in every single application.
While i watch videos in fullscreen, after a while, it just pops back to the nonfullscreen size, and then the window is deselected. When I play games, after a couple of minutes, it minimizes.

I am running windows XP
and i use:
McAfee

(came with my computer)
AVG 8 Professional
Ad-Aware 2008 Pro

Help please?

**amateur** · 05-18-2009, 06:22 PM

Hello and welcome to TSF.

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and i use:
McAfee (came with my computer)
AVG 8 Professional
Ad-Aware 2008 Pro

I am not sure if the issues you're having are related, but you should NEVER have more than one antivirus installed. While this may seem like greater protection, it can actually cause problems including slowdowns, system hangs and even crashes. Choose one to keep and uninstall the others.

As stated in our pre-posting sticky...

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" If you have more than one antivirus software installed, leave only ONE and uninstall the others.
" p2p programs like uTorrent, Bittorrent, LimeWire, Morpheus, etc., as they are a major conduit for malware and a likely source of your current issues. See this link

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LatitudeZ Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4 OS: Windows XP	Applications automatically minimizing/going out of focus? Every couple of minutes, my current window is deselected. For example, when Im typing right now, my firefox window just deselects and the words at the top turn faded grey instead of the bright white. Then i have to click the window again to continue typing. This happens in every single application. While i watch videos in fullscreen, after a while, it just pops back to the nonfullscreen size, and then the window is deselected. When I play games, after a couple of minutes, it minimizes. I am running windows XP and i use: McAfee (came with my computer) AVG 8 Professional Ad-Aware 2008 Pro Help please?