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Random explorer.exe stealing focus
I installed Win 10 x64 Home the other day and since then I have had nothing but problems. At random, explorer.exe will steal focus from the active task (can be firefox, can be Word doesn't matter what it is) making the system almost unusable.
Current Hardware specs:
Motherboard:
Gigabyte GA-990FX-UD3 (rev. 4.0)
Processor:
AMD FX-8320 8-core processor
Memory
8GB
Video Card
Gigabyte GForce GTX-650 2GB DDR5
SSD
OCZ Agility 64GB
HDD
2 3TB WD Blue
1 1TB WD Blue
1 640GB WD Blue
Optical Drives
2 LG BD-ROM
SATA Controller
JMicron JMB36x (needed extra SATA ports)
Input Devices
Razer Naga Hex
Razer DeathStalker KB
Acer 19" Touchscreen
Saitek ProFlight Yoke
Other Devices
Samsung 21" Monitor
Apex 32" HDTV
IOmega BT dongle
Under 8.1 I had no problems with this build in fact it worked quite nicely (other then the fact it was windows 8.1). When I first started experiencing issues after upgrading from 8.1 I ran a process checker to see if I could determine what was stealing focus turns out it was explorer. I tried shutting down and restarting explorer -no effect. Then I got on the phone with Microsoft. They couldn't fix it couldn't even see that there was a problem. Then I tried a clean install ...also no luck. I tried a chat with Microsoft the tech there couldn't fix it told me I needed to upgrade my video drivers (which were already at the latest version). So I got on chat again after another reinstall. There I had an epiphany: What if it was the BIOS that was causing issues? So I re-flashed the BIOS to the latest version (F3) and loaded the default settings (this at least eliminated the occasional lockups that I was also experiencing). In the meanwhile I waited for two days for Microsoft's tier II tech to call me. He played around in the system and reinstalled Win10 over the top of Win10 (as if this was supposed to accomplish something... it didn't) and I finally got sick of it and switched back to Windows 8.1
Now if anyone has any ideas on what to do with this blasted thing I am all ears. I actually would prefer 10 not that I particularly like the idea of Microsoft data-mining me to death but I have successfully upgraded 3 other computers with no issues and had no problems with them. So I would like to know what I am doing wrong with my own personal system. I have built and repaired PCs for the better part of 25 years and I have never had the issues that I am having with 10 so please some ideas would be great.