NFS Heat, dropping to windows.

While playing NFS Heat on PC through Origin, the game will take me to windows mode automatically. The game is still running and I need to press the icon in my bar to bring the game back up, but it is quite annoying in a game where every second counts. I play using a controller so it is not like I am accidentally pressing the windows button on my PC key board. This is what is happening and the closest I can explain what is happening, it is like the windows button is pressed mid game. I hae timed this and it happenes every 5 minuets regardless if I have minimized origin, closed it, or anything else. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have already attempted to do things such as clearing the cache, full uninstall and reinstall, as well as not allow origin to notify me in game. This problem stops if I kill Origin using task manager, but obviously that ends the game for that cycle. Upon ending a day or night cycle, I am required to shut the game down and restart origin if I do the previous example.