Why does my game always return to Desktop?

[Palehood]

Every time I play a game(from Steam), during the first five minutes,the game screen always goes back to desktop. The game itself doesn’t stop running and I can always play the game again by clicking the bottom left of the screen but this is getting frequent that I suspect something is up. It only started after this message came up(supposedly) from Mozilla Firefox which asked if “I wanted to allow this app to make changes to my device.” I clicked yes and thought nothing of it until I remembered that the Firefox logo was completely blue instead of blue and orange. So that could have been a trick by someone if they intended to hack. I attached a pic of the message here to show you what the message looked like. I got it while searching for online images so the difference is that the pic I have here shows blue and orange while the original one I saw was only completely blue. Ever since then, my gameplay is interrupted by returning to the desktop for the past two weeks. But my Windows Defender has also not detected any malware.
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[JoeeM]

Hi!
Windows Defender is not perfect (it’s very good tho), but you probably shouldn’t worry about being infected (if u were careful ofc)
I Also had a similar problem, when i downloaded Just Cause 4 From Epic Games, and it always froze my whole pc. It was the game’s fault, as it’s horribly optimized tho.
What game are we talking about exatly?
The firefox logo was always orange and blue.

[Palehood]

Hi!
Windows Defender is not perfect (it’s very good tho), but you probably shouldn’t worry about being infected (if u were careful ofc)
I Also had a similar problem, when i downloaded Just Cause 4 From Epic Games, and it always froze my whole pc. It was the game’s fault, as it’s horribly optimized tho.
What game are we talking about exatly?
The firefox logo was always orange and blue.

Planning to download Just Cause 2 to play but that’s another story. There are only three games I frequently play which is Ghost Master,Suzerain and Battle Chess. Every time before 5 minutes pass the screen kept reverting to desktop. It most likely wouldn’t be the games’ fault because one is from 2002 and one was created fairly recently. I don’t know when Battle Chess was made. So we have a recent and two past games all having the same problem so it’s either Steam itself or my PC that is at fault.

As for the logo, the one I attached in this post had an orange and blue logo because I picked it out from an image search to be shown as an example. Therefore it is not the one I saw as the one I saw. The logo which I saw originally was all blue so I suspect that screen which came up is related to something fishy.

[JoeeM]

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. :_)

[JoeeM]

Oh wait, my bad. It’s the Developer version… In that case maybe you accidentaly updated it? Search for Firefox in the search bar in down left corner (if u have windows 10) and if there’s two, then you have both.

[Palehood]

Oh wait, my bad. It’s the Developer version… In that case maybe you accidentaly updated it? Search for Firefox in the search bar in down left corner (if u have windows 10) and if there’s two, then you have both.

Checked. I don’t have any all-blue logos anywhere.

[Malnutrition]

@Palehood Can you perform a clean boot and see if the issue persists.

[Palehood]

@Palehood Can you perform a clean boot and see if the issue persists.

The ‘returning to desktop’ didn’t happen today. I’ll wait to see if it remains that way before doing the clean boot. Sorry, a stupid question to ask; could someone be logging into my Steam account at the same time as me cause the game tab to minimize and return to the desktop screen?

[Malnutrition]

If you feel that your machine may be compromised, then we can check for malware.

Download Autologger to your desktop.
Disable your Anitivirus/Defender prior to running.

[ul]
[li]Unzip it there. – If you are unsure how to unzip a program, then use ---- http://www.7-zip.org/ ----[/li][li]Right click Autologger and run as administrator. (Xp user double click)[/li][li]AVZ4 will open and scan your machine, allow this to complete.[/li][li]Upload Collectionlog.zip to your next reply.[/li][/ul]

[Palehood]

If you feel that your machine may be compromised, then we can check for malware.

If Autologger confirms there is malware, do I bring the PC to some expert people to get rid of the malware?

[Palehood]

Ok. Never mind. It has stopped. Problem is solved. Thanks everybody for answering.

[Malnutrition]

I would need the logs created by the tool. I check then write a script to remove any bad files.

If you say all is well. Then I will close the thread.