Can anyone help with Oblivion?

Tried alt+enter?

Yup, it does nothing

can't you just alt-tab when you want to do something else?

you can try external tools like dxwnd

This makes it sound like you need to set the "bFull Screen=1" variable in Oblivion.ini to 0 instead of 1. If you've already tried that, I've got nothin'.

in steam right click oblivion, properties, launch options and then type -windowed
this might workas it starts the game in windowed

Problem solved, turns out for some reason my "Documents" folders default location was changed or something like that which meant that the "My Games" folder with Oblivions settings file in wasnt in the place Oblivion was looking for it so it just launched with the default settings. You werent able to fix the problem but you all offered more help than any of the other forums I asked on and for that I thank you.

my name is axel. got it memorized? :D