Global Conflict

About 2-3 times a battle (and it always seems to be at a critical point) BF2 just shrinks into the taskbar, and I have to Alt-Tab to get it back. Even if nothing else is obviously running (including shutting down most things in the system tray).

ARGHH... I've done some searching and mucking about, but I haven't been able to fix it yet.

Anyone know anything at all about this?

only time this ever happens is from popup notifications (Xfire, Gmail etc...)

I would look for a program call killitall. This closes all unneccesary process.
Thats the only thing i can come up with.

I, too, only get the minimize when a popup window arrives (Mouse batt low, session timing out, etc...) I have not tried the killitall...but it is not a huge issue with me yet.

Yes, I have some kind of pop-up thing that doesn't actually pop up or something. I hate preconfiged laptops - they take forever to clean up and kill all the crap off - and if you're too aggressive, it just dies, because it relys on some of these things.

Thanks for the tip. I went looking for the program, and couldn't find it. Gotta link or a company name or something?

Opps

Program is called enditall, here ya go:
http://www.docsdownloads.com/Tier1/enditall.htm


Edit: Put new link up. It's not the newest version (Enditall2) but it's the free one. The cost of the program if you want to buy it is $5.85US

Thanks. I tested it - seems to have cleared it all up.

Yay i finally helped someone

Glad i could help, and i hope that keeps working for ya biny

Might also try spybot or adaware to get rid of the offending program.

No, wasn't adware or spyware. As far as I can tell, was some system util that came loaded on my laptop that I hadn't been able to find an kill off.

Perhaps Windows Security Update?

I hate that friggin thing, if it's left on it'll download updates as they come out if not set right, which could explain being kicked out.

Also... laptops suck for gaming.

Brenil, how'd you get your thing to say Dan Rather?

I had a virus warning (from Symantec) pop-up in the middle of a battle, my comp could hardly handle it. But usually alt-tabbing the game to check out teamspeak and what not works well.