I've had this problem for a long time now. A few times a day, whatever I'm on loses focus. If I'm typing, suddenly the whole window is deselected and I'm taken out of it. And then if I wait a while, I'm brought back in- I'm taken out, then put back in. In games, it can either alt-tab me or have me lose control for that moment.
I've checked many things. It's not an app in the background, it's not any sort of malicious software, and it's not me accidentally hitting the keyboard. I think it's an issue with Windows 10 itself. For some reason, some invisible thing takes priority for a half-minute before relinquishing it. I've not minded it TOO much since most modern games don't alt-tab from it, but I've recently got back into Skyrim and that game does not like being minimised.
So, any ideas?
I once wrote/modified a program that would query the selected window title every few seconds or something and if it changed would be printed to the terminal. Had to debug something
Something like this would help in being able to identify which application's taking focus.
So I just copied some code off stackoverflow that does exactly this but better.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/fb525aa1-e70f-496f-8057-56eb2ffd9059/image.png
WindowTitle.exe
Sweet! I'll keep this on for a while and see what the hell the thing is. I'll get back to you.
Caught the bastard! @Scratch
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/222725/a3a88f03-b091-4180-809a-e5f809f90f74/image.png
The hell is this?
Sounds like Windows Update but it is acting unusually. Have you tried a full virus scan?
The filename could mean a lot of things, I searched for it and found a lot of similar cases where people had this popup one way or another.
The silent flag technically means it's meant to run in the background (it's not).
One article seems to be pointing it to some akamai tools, which could be bundled with another application you actually use
http://www.nojokeit.com/2011/11/?m=1
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/222725/3a699fd3-09f6-4111-9d02-75b173adac08/image.png
Clean as ever. It's been happening for too long for it to just be a virus- I've scanned many times during that period.
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