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Across 2 different machines, 100% repo, the start button on my keyboard only opens the start menu every other time I push it. It has been that way for 4+ years, it went away for a bit after an update, then came back again.

Microsoft never has recovered from their dismantling of their test organizations.



I also have this issue. It's not 100% repo for me, be it's pretty frequent. I'm on a relatively recently fresh installed Windows 11.

I've also have an issue where sometimes the start menu doesn't let me type in the search on the first open until I close and reopen again.


Do you have a gaming keyboard? Weird keyboard glitches on Windows were happening to me due to switches on the keyboard, but from a UX perspective it always seemed like Windows was the issue.


I also figured this was related to the keyboard. I sometimes use Windows at work, where I have a wireless MS (heh) keyboard.

I swear it basically always misses the first key I press if I haven't typed in a while. Sure, it could be the keyboard going to sleep to save power or whatever.

But that same keyboard never had any kind of issue on my other computers, including under Windows, nor on that very same computer running Linux.


Well it repos on my laptop, so no. :-D

I have seen it across multiple machines, different keyboards, different video cards. Super annoying, but at least it is consistent so I can get used to it...


Replugging after booting into Windows solved it for one such model.


works every time for me...




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