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8 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

It has been an on going issue for a awhile now, many many restarts later and still going.

common issue, it seems, you can try RMA

 

you can this "M800 has a 'hidden' gaming mode which you may have activated by accident. - If you hold the 'SteelSeries' button (Between context menu and altGR) you see what's called the 'Meta Layer' and only the Media keys and windows button is lit red. While holding the SS button, press the Windows button - this will toggle the gaming mode (which disables the Windows key to stop accidental alt-tabbing) Note: I've never seen a visual confirmation of whether this gaming mode is on - You just have to remember what's happened

After pressing it once, release the SS button, and try to use the windows key (including any other keys you may have re-bound to the windows key function in SSE3) You should find they now work."

 

 

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OK my issue is that my windows button does work.

I am using a Steelseries Apex 350 Keyboard with Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview.

I have done a search for this issue and found the problem to be somewhat common for Win8 and Win10.

Does anyone have a possible solution for me that may work?

Thanks.

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Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

try a restart

It has been an on going issue for a awhile now, many many restarts later and still going.

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8 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

It has been an on going issue for a awhile now, many many restarts later and still going.

common issue, it seems, you can try RMA

 

you can this "M800 has a 'hidden' gaming mode which you may have activated by accident. - If you hold the 'SteelSeries' button (Between context menu and altGR) you see what's called the 'Meta Layer' and only the Media keys and windows button is lit red. While holding the SS button, press the Windows button - this will toggle the gaming mode (which disables the Windows key to stop accidental alt-tabbing) Note: I've never seen a visual confirmation of whether this gaming mode is on - You just have to remember what's happened

After pressing it once, release the SS button, and try to use the windows key (including any other keys you may have re-bound to the windows key function in SSE3) You should find they now work."

 

 

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3 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

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Wow that worked.... I will have to remember that one

"meta layer" gaming mode .. never seen this ever mentioned before.

 

Thanks

 

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cold you fixe for night theme?

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30 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

OK my issue is that my windows button does work.

This is a common side effect of Windows just being a trash OS.....

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On 6/11/2017 at 0:44 AM, DrMacintosh said:

This is a common side effect of Windows just being a trash OS.....

Umm no this had nothing to do with the OS...

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