Steam disabling windows key??

[masonjaroxleo9]

Every time I play a steam game, my windows key shuts off and won't turn back on unless I shut down/restart my computer. I like to take snips and screenshots, and it's very annoying when I am hindered by this. How do I fix this, if possible?

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Hold on, I've heard something about this.
Does your desktop keyboard have an fn key? Perchance it has 4 LED lights: NUM, CAPS, SCROLL, WIN
That last one is a toggle that disables the Windows Key when running games (so the start menu doesn't pop up during your epic headshot spree).
[fn] + [NUMPAD_PLUS] or [F9] or some weird combination toggles that and it might have defaulted to always on.
Worth exploring if this is your situation.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

https://www.betterhostreview.com/4-indicator-lights-on-keyboard.html
The key combination depends on the keyboard manufacturer of course.

[Crazy Tiger]

On most keyboards I used it was the combination FN+F12.

[Neurone]

In my case (Drevo BladeMaster PRO 88) I can enable/disable the [WIN] key with [Fn] + [WIN]

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.