Windows Key + Game disappearing from Taskbar

It doesn’t happen every time but often I will have to tab out of my game, or open a new program using the windows key to bring up search, but then MCC doesn’t have an app on the taskbar and I cannot get back into the game. I can hear the game and if i click the mouse i know my gun is working but I have no way to get back into the game. If i force quit the game, i get a MM ban. Please advise.

This is a known issue.

It’s in the list of known issues on the Support site and there’s a long thread on here about it.

There are two suggested ways to prevent the problem mentioned in the thread.

  1. Launch the game, go to settings, select Video and set to borderless mode
  2. In Windows, go to Settings, Select ‘System’, then from the menu on the left, select ‘Multi-Tasking’. Set both items under ‘Virtual Desktops’ to ‘All Desktops’

Thank you so much!

I went there and didn’t see any mention of desktop.