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As the title specifies, my windows key does not open my start menu at the moment. windows+tab does the cascading tabbing of applications, windows+e opens explorer, windows+t loops through my task bar, etc. The only thing the windows key doesn't do at the moment is opening the start menu.
Rebooting would most likely fix this, I'd be surprised if it didn't. However, if rebooting right now was not an option (and it might not be one if I had a bunch of calculations running, but this is hypothetical, but I'd like to be prepared in case this happens), which settings should I check to fix this? I did try disconnecting and reconnecting the keyboard.
1Thanks for this - just before I read your answer, I realized that an instance of Internet Explorer that I had opened shortly before the windows key stopped opening the start menu had crashed. Once I killed IE, the windows key started opening the start menu again. So you were basically right, it was an application interfering here. – G. Bach – 2014-06-29T18:23:47.537