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Have you ever actually hit the windows key by mistake?

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I use it constantly and I am guessing it has given me a better "awareness" of it's position.

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8 hours ago, Alec_FC said:

A lot of 'gaming' keyboard tend to feature a 'gaming' mode that disables the Windows key. I find it to incredibly annoying, especially when I want to Win+Tab.

Does anyone actually find this mode useful, or have a habit of hitting the key accidentally/

I've never used this mode in games as I've never hit the Windows key while in a game.  I have hit it though while using the Ctrl+Alt+Print Screen command...

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5 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Never been a problem on my side. I never encounters a game that minimized by hitting the win key since XP days.

Also I think that win+d is the best command to minimize a game window, sometimes alt+tab makes me clueless for half a second on where am I landing xD

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I've had it happen a few times but only when I was really getting into some intense FPS matches.

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Happens all the time when I am 3D Modeling xD

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Today In actually hit my computers reset button on accident while gaming..... felt so stupid lol

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17 hours ago, Alec_FC said:

A lot of 'gaming' keyboard tend to feature a 'gaming' mode that disables the Windows key. I find it to incredibly annoying, especially when I want to Win+Tab.

Does anyone actually find this mode useful, or have a habit of hitting the key accidentally/

yeah it's definitely happened

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17 hours ago, Alec_FC said:

A lot of 'gaming' keyboard tend to feature a 'gaming' mode that disables the Windows key. I find it to incredibly annoying, especially when I want to Win+Tab.

Does anyone actually find this mode useful, or have a habit of hitting the key accidentally/

Nope, I don't have this problem. My keyboard (G710+) has a button to disable the key, but I never use it because I forget to turn it off, then think my keyboard is broken when the WINDOWS key isn't working.

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Actually never realized what that button did on my keyboard until now. I've never hit the windows button by accident so I always wondered why such a button existed...

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I don't recall the last time I accidentally hit the Windows key but I do recall the last time I was annoyed by my Windows key lock being unintentionally turned on.

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Yes I have a handful of times.

 

I have also punched out car WINDOWS after 21 beers, vehicles have no respect for pedestrians.

notice that windows is plural, more then one car, more then one stupid punk, sorry I get aggrivated because I dealt with one today, funny how they dont realize I could easily hunt them down in the neighborhood

 

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