I have been using FSX for years but recently developed a frustrating problem. During a flight FSX pauses and minimizes to the task bar at seemingly random intervals. I can restart the flight again with no corruption to any settings etc.  I've disabled any software that may access the internet routinely such as Gmail downloader etc. Such items never caused a problem before but for research I've disabled them anyway. Unfortunately, this hasn't solved my problem. I've also ran apps in the background to monitor CPU and GPU temps..........again nothing that would indicate a reason for minimizing randomly. 

 

Is it possible to search in the event viewer (W7) or anywhere else to see who the culprit is????

 

Thanks in advance. 

Could it be your antivirus program?

_{check in the settings that PAUSE ON TASK SWITCH is UN checked.}

 

_Vic

_{check in the settings that PAUSE ON TASK SWITCH is UN checked.}

 

_Vic

No it wasn't, but probably never was. It's a good place to start though, I'll load up a long flight tomorrow and see if it helps.

 

Thanks.