Post by BuckSkin on Nov 27, 2017 18:00:27 GMT
For the last several days, I have not had any response whatsoever when I press the Esc key.
I first thought it was the keyboard; tried the keyboard on two other machines and it worked fine.
I tried a different wireless keyboard on the problem machine and Esc would not work for it either.
I was by then suspecting some sort of wireless keyboard driver issue and was just about to dig into that; but before I went into that, I dug out an old ancient ACER wired keyboard and tried it; no Esc response for that keyboard either.
So, I google-searched and found this:
www.oxhow.com/how-to-fix-an-unresponsive-escape-key/
Toward the end of the article, he says that Photoshop is often the culprit when one is experiencing a non-responsive Esc key; read the many comments of people thanking him for pointing out that Photoshop is the cause of their grief.
After reading that, I closed Elements and my Esc function immediately started working.(spell check kept saying that I was spelling immediately wrong; I looked it up and I was right and spell check was wrong; that is not the first nor the second time I have had that happen)
I have used Elements for years and this is the first time it has caused me to lose the Esc function.
Has this happened to any of you guys ?
Do you think deleting the preferences file would cure this ?
I first thought it was the keyboard; tried the keyboard on two other machines and it worked fine.
I tried a different wireless keyboard on the problem machine and Esc would not work for it either.
I was by then suspecting some sort of wireless keyboard driver issue and was just about to dig into that; but before I went into that, I dug out an old ancient ACER wired keyboard and tried it; no Esc response for that keyboard either.
So, I google-searched and found this:
www.oxhow.com/how-to-fix-an-unresponsive-escape-key/
Toward the end of the article, he says that Photoshop is often the culprit when one is experiencing a non-responsive Esc key; read the many comments of people thanking him for pointing out that Photoshop is the cause of their grief.
After reading that, I closed Elements and my Esc function immediately started working.(spell check kept saying that I was spelling immediately wrong; I looked it up and I was right and spell check was wrong; that is not the first nor the second time I have had that happen)
I have used Elements for years and this is the first time it has caused me to lose the Esc function.
Has this happened to any of you guys ?
Do you think deleting the preferences file would cure this ?
