Shortcuts stopped working

[newpersn]

Got a random issue here.

 

Shortcuts like

 

Win+.

Win+Shift+S

 

Have stopped working. Nothing has changed within group policy.

 

Has anyone else seen this?

[MartinByard]

Silly question, are all the keys on the keyboard working (mainly thinking the Windows key itself, so pressing the Windows key on its own brings up the start menu).

[newpersn]

We have checked that. Keyboard is working. Also its a few other people not just 1 user/devices...

[rossibIT]

We have seen this too.. We have a snipping tool that used to be accessible by win+shift+S but it has stopped working. Also no changes. A window update?

[LeMarchand]

I used to get Win+Shift+S stop after a use or 2 each session on W10 at one site only. Never figured out why, but not happened on the same machine since an in place upgrade to W11.

[Jawloms]

Does something commonplace like Windows P still work?

 

(TIL about Win+Shift+S!)

[tmoon-mint]

According to the patch megathread on Reddit its a bug in Windows 10. It appears that the May patch Tuesday still hasnt resolved it.

[newpersn]

According to the patch megathread on Reddit its a bug in Windows 10. It appears that the May patch Tuesday still hasnt resolved it.

You got a link to that?

[tmoon-mint]

(4) Patch Tuesday Megathread (2022-05-10) : sysadmin (reddit.com)

 

Top comment by u/joshtaco mentions the snip and sketch issue.

[jthompson]

I think Win+Shift+S is one of the shortcuts covered by the Group Policy setting that disables Win+E and Win+R and some other (but not all) Win key shortcuts. I can't remember which policy setting exactly, but maybe a bug affecting that same subset of shortcuts?

 

If your users are needing a shortcut to invoke Snip & Sketch, you can push out a reg setting via Group Policy to map the PrintScreen button to it.

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard

Name: PrintScreenKeyForSnippingEnabled 
Type: REG_DWORD 
Value: 1