- Jun 24, 2016
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So recently I have been having a problem where sometimes randomly while playing games my computer enters a weird "mode", as I am going to call it, where every button I press performs a shortcut rather than function as a normal button. Hitting "r" opens run, my spacebar switches between keyboard input languages I have set up, and a whole other slew of shortcut keys I forgot to take note of. Bottom line, I can't type and every button I push just opens more windows and screws stuff up.
Now the first obvious thing I notice is these are all commands that normally function when being pressed while having the windows key held down. Everywhere I looked online points towards the possibility of my windows key being stuck, however this is not the case. My computer literally just enters a state randomly where every button i push is tied towards a windows function. the windows key is not being held down, and after dealing with this for a while I haven't found anything to fix the problem. One thing I did was I went onto my keyboards software and just completely disabled windows key. That didn't solve the problem either and I would still sometimes randomly enter this "mode". The only way I actually get out of this "mode" is by restarting the computer and hoping it wont happen again.
I have a steelseries m800 mechanical keyboard. Its been fine for me for a long time and I even tried switching keyboards once when my pc had another fit and toggled this wonderful problem on and switching keyboards did nothing.
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.10240 Build 10240
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer To be filled by O.E.M.
System Model To be filled by O.E.M.
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor, 4013 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0219, 6/11/2012
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Now the first obvious thing I notice is these are all commands that normally function when being pressed while having the windows key held down. Everywhere I looked online points towards the possibility of my windows key being stuck, however this is not the case. My computer literally just enters a state randomly where every button i push is tied towards a windows function. the windows key is not being held down, and after dealing with this for a while I haven't found anything to fix the problem. One thing I did was I went onto my keyboards software and just completely disabled windows key. That didn't solve the problem either and I would still sometimes randomly enter this "mode". The only way I actually get out of this "mode" is by restarting the computer and hoping it wont happen again.
I have a steelseries m800 mechanical keyboard. Its been fine for me for a long time and I even tried switching keyboards once when my pc had another fit and toggled this wonderful problem on and switching keyboards did nothing.
OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.10240 Build 10240
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer To be filled by O.E.M.
System Model To be filled by O.E.M.
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor, 4013 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0219, 6/11/2012
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
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