Esc key does nothing when pressed

Aug 22, 2018
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I have an Acer Aspire laptop with Windows 10, and in the past few days I've noticed that the Esc key does nothing when I press it. Shift+Esc and Fn+Esc do nothing either. No program that I've tried to use it with has worked. I don't know whether it's a software or hardware problem.
 
Shift + Esc, in Windows, should bring up Task Manager. That doesn't happen? If it works for Windows, but not for a given application/program, the issue lies with the program.

Can you manually open Task Manager? Right click the Windows start icon, and select TM from there.

If you cannot open, even manually, then something is blocking your ability to access.


How old is your OS install? Any suspicion of viruses etc?
 
Aug 22, 2018
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I can open Task Manager but not by using Shift+Esc.

I have the most recent version of Windows 10 and I don't believe I have any virus or malware. Every other key is working fine, it's just Esc that's not responsive.