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When i alt-tab out of BF3 i have a hard time getting back to it. I will click on it, and it will go fullscreen for a couple of seconds and then go back to windowed mode. If i keep doing it i can eventually get it selected, but it is kind of irritating if i have to alt tab out. Anyone else had this problem? Also i keep getting the popup to change my windows color scheme to basic, although i have clicked don't change and don't ask me again it still does it every once in a while. Where can i change that permanently so it wont keep asking me? I am running on WIndows 7 Home 64 bit, system specs are in sig if necessary.

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Do you have teamviewer installed? I used to have a problem with BF3 with if i had teamviewer installed i could not go to fullscreen mode at all. your issue is slightly different but it could be related perhaps.

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No i do not have that installed. It just started today and the only thing that has changed is that i got a new mouse. But it is still running on the same software as for my keyboard.

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try alt return rather than alt tab.

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Color scheme is bug in BF3 where it makes system memory peak at 100% and windows thinks it's running slow. Do you have some multimonitor software installed and running? Actual multiple monitors caused me same thing.

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hitting alt enter doesn't do anything for me, and i have found out that it is not just bf3 but far cry 3 is now doing the same thing aswell. I can get to either eventually but i have to mash click on the window to get it to open. I am running a second monitor though could this be causing the issue?

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Instead of tabbing out just use the windows key. Thats what i do ;)

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The about Windows running slow is a bug in bf3 and you can't fix it sadly i do not know about your other issue tough.

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But that only fixes the problem if i tab out, i am also having this problem trying to open the game for the first time. I did mess with my dual display settings but that was to fix a weird dual cursor issue. So i put both my screens running off my video card, and then i added a new mouse. Those are the only changes i have made since this started happening. I have tried googling around but most of the topics include fixes that are described here. If anyone has any other ideas id appreciate the help.

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