Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Halo PC problem just started (Gaming Window minimizes on its own)
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Every time I play on PC Halo the Windows minimizes itself like every 3 minutes. I have been playing almost every day like forever so can anyone help me out?? Ive tried to look it up but no luck. Thanks

Dr. J

  • 04.12.2005 6:57 PM PDT

I seem to have the same issue on Win XP with a number of full screen games. Before starting the game end all background processes, easiest way to do this is
press Ctrl+Shift+Esc then go to the processes tab, right click on explorer, hit end process tree. Then hit file, run, and enter explorer.
Also check for spyware.

  • 04.12.2005 9:08 PM PDT
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WOW

i didn't know ctrl+shift+esc did the same thing as ctrl+alt+del

  • 04.12.2005 10:05 PM PDT
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On my comp it doesn't. It just opens that start menu. Are you sure your not pressing the start button between the alt and ctrl keys?

  • 04.13.2005 9:25 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Nope, ctrl+shift+escape does work. Interesting. ;)

Anywho, yeah, probably spyware that's messing up your comp, use ad aware and/or spybot S&D, or another good free anti-spyware program.

  • 04.13.2005 9:57 AM PDT
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Did you know theres a sticky about this at the top of The Maw? Its called the

WinXP SP2 Compat Fix

or something like that. Check that out.

I had that problem too. Apparently, its some glitch with the Windows Service Pack 2

  • 04.13.2005 6:24 PM PDT
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Nothing works...I have tried everything....Reinstalling and uninstalling following every thing on Bungies post. no error messages or anything...it just minimizes Serious answers please

  • 04.16.2005 10:07 PM PDT
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Are you pressing the start button on your keyboard?

  • 04.17.2005 9:12 AM PDT
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What I do with that problem is:

When the Halo screen pops up and fills your screen, click your mouse as many times as you can. Keep doing that until the opening cinematics pops up.

That's what I do...it works for me...dont ask me why, though.

  • 04.17.2005 10:09 AM PDT
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^^^^^^^weird...that that works. anyways ya what me15ter keeps on saying about the Service Pack 2 fixer-up-er. It'll stop the game from minimizing, also that patch is weird though, i used to need it when ihad XP installed on top of Windows ME, but then when my hard drive got all broken i had XP installed just by itself and I no longer needed the SP 2 fix..weird, anyways hope ur problem is solved.

  • 04.17.2005 11:36 AM PDT
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I never used the patches or anything for the fix, but jman is right...the patch is an oddball...

I just used my "click" method. Works for me!

  • 04.17.2005 11:41 AM PDT