Windows 10: Windows stops listening to keyboard every few minutes...

I am running resource monitor to see what is going on, as periodically my keyboard does not respond at all. I don't see errors in the event log, and I think I saw something like this when windows 10 first came out, and have reinstalled it over the weekend.

There is a clue to the problem in that the Disk activity changes, but I am suffering from a ShellExperienceHost filter issue (that I have no idea what it's about) which I posted an issue on fixing in another thread.





Anyway, note the disk spike and that during such intervals, which seem to happen several minute appart, I cannot type a darn thing on the PC.

:)

 

My Keyboard stops working after a few minutes.

I followed instructions, and a window popped up stating keyboard driver is up to date. My keyboard randomly stops working correctly, and the keys start performing different functions. For example, when pressing the ESC key the start menu pops up. After
a little while, the keyboard goes back to normal.

 

My Keyboard stops working after a few minutes.

Hi everybody,

I was facing a similar issue. For me, this was with a stand-alone keyboard. (A Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard). It worked normally for a few minutes after it was power cycled. Then after 5 minutes, the keyboard would be dead, even though all the drivers
were working as normal, and there were no error messages.

The problem turned out to be one of the function buttons at the top of the keyboard. The F9 key had been pushed down in such a way that it was not popping back up. The button doesn't do anything normally, so there was no sign that anything was amiss, but,
after some number of minutes, the keyboard would shutdown entirely.

Once I pressed the key, it popped up as normal, and the keyboard was working normally once again.

 

I showed you how to remove the filter in your other thread. Post a new view of what is causing your disk activity and we will see if we can pinpoint the culprit.

 

OK, filter cleared itself somehow. This is what I see during the interval:

 

New view

 

You seem to have some very high response times. If you click on the Disk tab at the top you can explore this a little more. See my view below:

 

Yeah, this reinstall of Windows 10 has restored all the sins of Win10 and few graces. It tooks months for me to track down all the various known registry fixes etc to get it working optimally.

Having said that, Skype was a recent re-install (one of the lost apps from reinstalling Windows. It's something I use everyday, but I have now uninstalled it and was hoping that was the culprit, but no.... even as I was posting this, I see the problem again. NOTE: response times seem to jack up during this interval.

NOTE: THIS IS A SSD drive.

 

UPDATE: I have turned off Cortana, something I did before the reinstall, but didn't get around to this weekend. Waiting on results.

 

Another useful tool for troubleshooting is described here:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...conflicts.html

 

So, I was about to say that my keyboard is no longer hijacked or freezing or going unresponsive.

but then some Cortana process kicked in and BAM! locked up again. I followed Brink's tutorial to turn the thing off, but it seems some of her still haunts me.

 

OK, I'll look a bit more, but all bets are off now. I just popped $200 for a copy of Win7 pro , shipping, etc. from Dell for this Inspiron that's still < 1/2 year old. Win10 has been interesting, but this is just not very productive. Thanks, Cortana. I think you learned something since the first time I turned you off. You learned how to fight me back the second time.