JIMJAM
September 1st, 2012, 06:33
2 weeks after a total OS reinstall from a HD failure and still not where I was. Now I have a very annoying problem thats got me borderline crazy. Its not just Fsx but also Skyrim, the only other "game" I have loaded.
Full screen game, sim outta no where minumizes to the toolbar. I have to click it and I see what appears to be it coming back. But it does not. I then need to hit alt-enter and eventually full screen reapears.
From my research, I am told its probably a program in the background "phoning home" or doing something that stops the sim. I have tried using End it all a program to kill background progs. I tried Task manager but to be honest, there are so many services I am overwhelmed. I stop,kill the obvious uneeded progs,antivirus..... I went through and disabled any automatic updates that programs used that I could find. My game res and desktop are the same,native.
I am out of ideas so any suggestions welcomed. The usual suspects? Task manager shows whats running,resources ect but is there a easy to use program to record or realtime show what program or event is happening?
Vista 64 all updates. I7 proc,6 gigs, 660TI 2 gig vid card.
Full screen game, sim outta no where minumizes to the toolbar. I have to click it and I see what appears to be it coming back. But it does not. I then need to hit alt-enter and eventually full screen reapears.
From my research, I am told its probably a program in the background "phoning home" or doing something that stops the sim. I have tried using End it all a program to kill background progs. I tried Task manager but to be honest, there are so many services I am overwhelmed. I stop,kill the obvious uneeded progs,antivirus..... I went through and disabled any automatic updates that programs used that I could find. My game res and desktop are the same,native.
I am out of ideas so any suggestions welcomed. The usual suspects? Task manager shows whats running,resources ect but is there a easy to use program to record or realtime show what program or event is happening?
Vista 64 all updates. I7 proc,6 gigs, 660TI 2 gig vid card.