Been having trouble with my computer

hiyoanimations

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Recently, I had to factory reset my PC due to malicious errors and what not. Upon factory resetting my pc, everything's been working fine until I noticed something strange. While I'm in google chrome, the icon on the toolbar is supposed to stay highlighted at all times, lest I click on the toolbar and/or off the window.While I was still in the program, the program un-highlighted itself, It made me wonder "is someone opening a program in the background causing the program to un-highlight?" Here is an example of what I mean. http://prntscr.com/j8ir79
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(I'm not that knowledgeable on computers, so if anyone has any help that they could offer, that'd be amazing!! Thank you in advance ;)
 
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if chrome is full screen it shouldn't lose focus. I know if i click on desktop it loses its highlight but still shows as open by showing a line under the icon.

Try a clean boot - read instructions and make sure NOT to close all Microsoft services or Win 10 won't boot right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

if it stops it, it is likely one of your start up programs doing something in background to steal focus. Slowly add them back to starting so we can find what is doing it.

Colif

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These errors you did factory reset to fix, were they signs of a virus or just blue screens? A virus could have copied itself into parts of the image used by windows to do the factory reset. Have you run an Anti virus scan using defender or Malwarebytes? - try the free version: https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/
 

hiyoanimations

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There weren't any particular signs of viruses other than the fact that AVG notified me of a file trying to be deleted, I think. Of course, being the very inexperienced person that I am in the field of computers, I looked up solutions, but to no avail, henceforth causing me to straight up factory reset. I'm not sure whether or not AVG's notification was in correlation to a third party trying to remove a file, or AVG glitching out, so I panicked. That said, it is to my knowledge that that was the only "sign of a virus"
In regards to your second question, yes, I did in fact run a malwarebytes scan multiple times throughout the day and no issue were reported, I even went as far as to download avast to see if malwarebytes missed something
Do you perhaps think this random issue that occurs randomly for google chrome has something to do with malware/a virus, or is it just me being paranoid?
 

Colif

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if chrome is full screen it shouldn't lose focus. I know if i click on desktop it loses its highlight but still shows as open by showing a line under the icon.

Try a clean boot - read instructions and make sure NOT to close all Microsoft services or Win 10 won't boot right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

if it stops it, it is likely one of your start up programs doing something in background to steal focus. Slowly add them back to starting so we can find what is doing it.
 
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hiyoanimations

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Thank you for the advice! I will proceed in doing so. However, there's one question that WILL occur when following through on this procedure, that question being this: how long am I to wait to see if the issue stops? This problem involving the google chrome icon only occurs randomly, and when it does occur, the intervals between the last occurrence are so spread out that I don't know when to expect it.
As of this writing, it is to my knowledge that the google chrome icon focusing issue has occurred twice. The issue took place yesterday somewhere around midday, it happened again earlier this morning, and since then hasn't occurred(yet)