I wonder if Windows shortcuts can somehow interfere with the application in focus. Ctrl+W is used fairly commonly. It closes a browser tab (chrome) and never fails to register; for Windows 10 it closes current explorer window.
If someone asked me, I’d say there was no such issue under Win 8.1, but I might be mistaken.
Stupid question but what kind of layout do you have on your keyboards?
Just tried on Windows 8.1 and I ended up with a screen full of Print String… I guess it works fine there lol
It might be worth a look inside any program that creates an overlay like Steam in games or NVidia GeForce Experience or Discord or TwitchApp. (These ones don’t do anything but any other one I don’t know about may interfere with the shortcut)
What I fail to mention is that it’s truly inconsistent. In half the cases I can spam ctrl+w with 100% accuracy, it works just fine. In some other cases, it fails to register 60% of the time…