Clicking notifications in Windows 11 doesn't open the apps, just blinks the taskbar icon

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I'm on Windows 11 and got a brand new Surface Laptop 7. I got a second one for my wife same time. On both, right after the initial setup, notifications come in just fine but clicking on any doesn't bring apps to the forefront. This is the same for any and all "notifications". For example, I use AWS VPN and it wasn't working for some reason. I clicked onto the app and an error modal was there but it was never brought to the front. This is every single app.Clicking the notification does run the action in the app, just doesn't bring it front. For example, Slack will change to the DM/channel/messa

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