Start menu not coming up when in windowed borderless games?

[Cooldude93]

I am having the strangest issue. Whenever VA is running and a windowed borderless app is in focus, pushing the Win key does not bring up the Start menu. Interestingly the "Hey Cortana" command does bring it up. This happens in 1.6.2 and back in 1.5.12. Closing VA brings back Win key control immediately. Is this a bug or limitation?

[Pfeil]

Does this happen with one specific app or a number of them? Are they games? Do you have any VoiceAttack commands that would prevent the Windows key from getting passed through?

I've not had this happen, to my knowledge, though I am running Windows 7.

Out of interest, does this also occur when you move "MSTaskBar.dll" out of VoiceAttack's folder?

[Cooldude93]

This happens on completely blank profiles. So far I've tested it on four games with good windowed borderless support (Black Ops 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, GTA V, and Fallout 4). It only happens in GTA V. Oh and moving MSTaskBar.dll does nothing. So it seems to be a GTA V problem.

[Pfeil]

Ah, yes. GTA V appears to use a very odd method of hooking the keyboard, which actually causes system-wide issues on my machine; If I have it running, my keyboard input into other applications is slowed down immensely at times.

I also have to start VoiceAttack after GTA V, or VoiceAttack's keyboard hook won't work(and randomly stops working, probably after tabbing out of the game a few times).


This is a GTA V issue in my opinion, not much Gary can do about Rockstar's poor porting work.

[Cooldude93]

Oh well I can't complain too much. At least my commands work and alt-tab is fine.

[Antaniserse]

Oh well I can't complain too much. At least my commands work and alt-tab is fine.

Have you tried issuing a CTRL+ESC combination instead? (it is an alternate keystroke to open the Start menu without using the special Win key)