Recently had a problem of FSX:SE Minimizing to the desktop window every hour on the hour. It doesn't crash just minimizes! after clicking the icon on the task bar around 10 times FSX opens up in paused mode and when un-paused the flight continues from where it left off with no problems. It seems like something is overriding FSX causing it to minimize but I cannot find out why. Im running windows 10 and have checked what programs are running and if I require any updates which I don't. I've tried removing add ons one by one to see if one of them was causing an issue but the problem persists. Also tried temporarily moving the FSX.cfg file to let FSX create a new one but that didn't work either. As a last resort I completely uninstalled and reinstalled the game, but still no dice. Any help on this would be really appreciated.

 

 

Perhaps the following link will help:  http://www.avsim.com/topic/340992-fsx-minimizesnot-crash/

 

Best regards,

Tried to download the app but it seems to be broken, anywhere else I can download it from?

Here you go, it's at the bottom of the page:

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexplorer.aspx

 

Run it and see what may be causing the issue.  Post back here after the sim minimizes and tell Jim what is going on at that moment.  

Sorry for the late reply,

 

Just ran the task explorer and just before the sim paused (not minimized as I wasnt in full screen mode) taskeng.exe opened.

 

Any thoughts?