Annoying spontaneous beeps and minimizing screens

My computer spontaneous beeps and minimizes open windows almost every minute. Has anyone else experienced this and found a remedy?

Hi Amstellt,
Please share us more details for better analyzation:
1. Have you made any changes before this issue?
2. Do you mean that the computer automatically beeps and minimize open windows?
3. What program does this issue minimize windows happen in?
This situation also can be caused by a software or service conflict, I suggest to perform a clean boot to solve this, a clean boot is performed to start Windows by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This helps eliminate software conflicts
that occur when you install a program or an update.
For more information about clean boot, please refer to the following article.
http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/929135
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