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t-cth
Copper Contributor
Oct 13, 2022

Keyboard shortcuts in Win-X menu not working

A few days ago all the keyboard shortcuts in the Win-X menu (Start right-click) have completely stopped working.

Hitting Win-X still opens the menu, but none of the subsequent keyboard commands, such as Win-X -> U -> S for sleep, work anymore.

 

This happened on two of my computers, both running Windows 11 22H2 and fully up to date, but randomly corrected itself on one but not the other.

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  • ehansen9's avatar
    ehansen9
    Brass Contributor
    Apr 25, 2023

    t-cth I fixed the issue on my machine by turning on Underline access keys in Settings

     

    • sukumar002's avatar
      sukumar002
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 23, 2024
      This worked like charm. Not sure why that will be turned on and off automatically randomly. But as we know this option is baked into system setting, it is at least easy to turn on next time some updates turns it off.

      Thanks for posting this. 🙂
  • cmitch419's avatar
    cmitch419
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 05, 2023

    t-cth I, too, am having this issue.  If I restart my computer, the Win-X keyboard shortcuts work for a little while but after some unknown amount of time, they disappear again.,

  • NateS2's avatar
    NateS2
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 26, 2023

    I was just harassed into "upgrading" from Win10 to Win11 and now the shortcuts in the Win+X menu don't work.

    I've been using Win+X>U>U to  quickly shutdown my PC for years and now it doesn't work half the time.

    It keeps working and not working randomly. This behavior makes no sense.

    • arno_dunstatter_at_MIC's avatar
      arno_dunstatter_at_MIC
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 27, 2023
      same inconsistent behavior here - if only microsoft was a large corporation with lots of resources so they could polish their operating systems *before* they release them. Alas, they're just a small company still operating out of a garage. /s
  • arno_dunstatter_at_MIC's avatar
    arno_dunstatter_at_MIC
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 24, 2022
    I'm suffering the same issue and it's really annoying. The keyboard shortcuts came back for a little while, but then went missing again. From what I can tell this has been an issue for over a year

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/odb4vz/windows_11s_winx_menu_is_missing_access_keys/
    • t-cth's avatar
      t-cth
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 24, 2022
      Mine came back about two days after posting. Not related to any update as far as I could tell....

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