Question / Help Alt + Tab Sends OBS into a Black Hole

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8bitBonfire

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I've been streaming with OBS for a few months now and within the last month or so I keep running into this same problem. I'll have OBS opened while streaming, along with a game, my browser(chrome) and that's usually it. Any time during the stream that I need to Alt+Tab to switch from the game back to OBS or my browser, it minimizes OBS and it completely disappears. It isn't closed though, because the stream continues on as if it's still running. So it doesn't end my stream, but it makes it so that I can't use OBS during the stream. I can't edit text overlays, make adjustments to the green screen, resize or reposition images or captured windows, etc.

I'm running Windows 7 and I'm using whatever the newest version of OBS is. I always just say yes when it wants to update itself. I'm guessing that since the updates are the only thing that have changed since before this problem started, I might need to revert back to an older version. I didn't wanna do anything like that without first asking about it in case there's some obscure solution that I wouldn't be able to figure out myself. I've tried looking this up, but I can't find any posts about this particular problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
Wow, didn't even know that existed. I definitely haven't intentionally selected it, but I've deselected it and I'm going to mess with it now to see if that fixed it. I'll post again with the results.
 
Yeah, it hasn't done it again since I deselected it. It's weird, cuz I know I never turned that on. Maybe it became a default setting after an update? The problem was that it didn't go to the notification area either while that was selected. It actually just disappeared and left OBS running. Anyway, as long as it doesn't do that anymore I'm happy. Thanks for the help. \m/
 
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