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Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012) by zokier on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:42AM (#15312062)
When I was younger and played games, popping out the windows key was typical. At best triggering windows menu meant lost round, but more typically a crashed game or even crashed Windows.

Even today I'm wary of task switching from a game, as it still doesn't seem to be entirely robust

Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012) by keksicus on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:39AM (#15318336)
I haven't hosed a windows session yet, and maybe just one game was crashy ever, while task switching for the last two decades. I ran Windows Server though typically.
Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012) by mikejmoffitt on Saturday September 23, 2017 @02:41PM (#15321033)
I remember this not-so-fondly. This wouldn't be a problem for a game that is composited alongside the desktop in a "Windowed" mode, but for a full-screen application it is an "exclusive" application. The Source engine handles this context switch absolutely terribly. Task-switching out of Team Fortress 2 is a stuttery mess, where for around ten seconds it'll just loop the tiny audio buffer it last filled on top of a black screen before anything is usable again.