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An empty, rectangle box popped out of nowhere whilst playing a game and listening to music trough Chrome. This resulted in all my current apps being minimized, including the game I was playing.

During this, clicking my desktop and right clicking the box itself only made Windows go "Ding", with no other feedback whatsoever. So far, I have only encountered this issue once, and have never seen it before on any kind of computer. It went away upon restarting explorer.exe.

I decided to use the built-in Windows defender after experiencing trouble with both Avast! and BitDefender on my previous Windows 7 installation, and I am experienced enough to tell a scam/fishy item from a legitimate resource in terms of general use. I can confirm that Defender works, at least to an extent, after attempting to infect my own computer and failing.

I am myself very keen on file optimization and making sure I only have as little files as I need, so I don't go around installing whatever I see floating around. I know what I need and what I don't.

I cannot stress this enough, the box was empty. There were no ads or such.

Here are two screenshots for reference - One I took during the strange event, and one I took after.

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With a little luck, You can find out exactly which application is causing the problem.

All You need to do, is run this program.

If the windows appears again, You just have to click it while You are running focus.exe
This nice little tool, will show You which program stole the focus. That will be the one causing the problem.

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