Why does Visual Studio run in "Always on top" mode?
Problem
My copy of Visual Studio seems to be set in "Always On Top" Mode. It runs this way by default; there seems to be no way of changing it. Visual Studio runs as Administrator/Elevated, but that really shouldn't affect whether or not Visual Studio runs as "Always On Top." Any idea why this may be occurring, and how to prevent it from happening?
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Fix for: Why does Visual Studio run in "Always on top" mode?
I had a similar thing happen with Visual Studio being stuck as always on top. It started happening after I hit the Windows key followed by a bunch of arrow/home/end/pageup/pagedn keystrokes by accident (I had meant to use the control key). What seemed to clear the always-on-top behavior was to select a different application (eg: Chrome), then press Windows+Home (which minimized everything other than Chrome), then press Windows+Home again. Then I could un-minimize Visual Studio, and it would no …
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