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Title: Games minimizing to tray
Post by: bsgamble on June 12, 2006, 08:55:03 pm
Anyone know why some of my games minimize when they are opened and the only way to get into them is to alt+tab.  Kinda sucks having to have a keyboard out.  Any help would be greatly appriciated :) Thanks
Title: Re: Games minimizing to tray
Post by: trcroyle on June 12, 2006, 10:21:57 pm
Are you using a front end?
Title: Re: Games minimizing to tray
Post by: leapinlew on June 12, 2006, 10:24:14 pm
Anyone know why some of my games minimize when they are opened and the only way to get into them is to alt+tab.  Kinda sucks having to have a keyboard out.  Any help would be greatly appriciated :) Thanks

have you removed alt, shift, and cntrl from your buttons? also, i've seen spyware cause a window to minimize or lose focus
Title: Re: Games minimizing to tray
Post by: ptpeter on June 12, 2006, 10:40:09 pm
i too have been having that problem, i use mamewah and when i load up some games then will minimize to the tray and the screen will be black
Title: Re: Games minimizing to tray
Post by: bsgamble on June 12, 2006, 10:57:30 pm
That is exactly the problem I am having.  the screen goes black and if you alt+tab it will go back into the game but thats the only way.
Title: Re: Games minimizing to tray
Post by: hnugz on June 12, 2006, 11:05:47 pm
are you all using a shortcut to the frontend to start the games?  I found something at http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/texts/tec082601.html that says theres an option under the properties to start a program minimized, not sure if this is the same issue.  Didn't see anything else immediately in my search.
Title: Re: Games minimizing to tray
Post by: whatisk on June 12, 2006, 11:12:41 pm
i too have been having that problem, i use mamewah and when i load up some games then will minimize to the tray and the screen will be black


Have you tried playing around with the dosbox and safelaunch options?