File Explorer Windows Pop Behind

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- and of course it flashes the icon on the Taskbar.
I've heard others are seeing this as well.
Has anyone found any good workarounds for this errant behavior yet in Windows 8.1?
-Noel
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Hi Noel,
Have you inserted any external HDD in your computer?
Would you please help to capture a screenshot of this issue you mentioned?
I suggest we can try to use Process explorer to view if there are any other process call the explorer.exe when the issue appears:
Process Explorer v15.40
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Kate Li
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