Windows randomly tabs out and opens shortcuts!

[TomasPistonCraft]

I was playing CS:GO with friends and on the last few rounds stupid shortcuts started to happen, at first I thought it was random alt+tabs but found out keys like W would open ink workspace and arrow keys would move windows around.

Is there a way to completely disable this or a shortcut to remove it, Its really annoying and for the last round I could only move side to side so I crab walked around and sadly lost because I tabbed out once again 🙁

Please help because I am unsure if this is Windows 10 or My keyboard drivers, I have a Corsair K40 Raptor (The Red LED one)

 

[hydranix]

12+ year Counter-Strike vet here.

It's not your keyboard drivers. Whats happening is your key presses are being interpreted as shortcut keys.

It's likely some combination of keys you're using in-game are triggering system wide shortcuts.
Alt + Space + R (window restore)
Alt + Space + M (window move)
Alt + Space + S (window resize)
Alt + Space + X (window maximize)
Meta + <arrow key> (snap window to screen edge)
etc.

Protip: don't use Alt for anything in game. Unbind it completely and forget its there. Same goes for the meta key (Windows key). Use Ctrl to walk, and shift to duck, Bind E to a macro to toggle walk on and off so you can react fast enough to shoot someone without your hand doing acrobatics.


Or your keyboard is dirty/damaged and appears as if its always pressing the Alt key, in which case you already know what to do there.


You can disable shortcuts for window snapping by disabling window snapping altogether.

To do this, open Settings -> System -> Multitasking
And turning off the switch for snapping windows.

Or modify and set this registry key to:
(REG_SZ, NOT REG_DWORD)

[HKCU\\Control_Panel\\Desktop]
WindowArrangementActive="0"


*Edit: Fixed some auto-correct typos