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Why does Visual Studio run in "Always on top" mode?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202633559 views
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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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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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