Disclaimer: Theory, based loosely on related experiences in Windows ages ago back when I actually used Windows.

The keyboard handler might be getting confused when you Alt+Tab, leaving the game stuck thinking you’re still holding Alt+Tab when you return to the game.

Just for shits and giggles, the next time you experience this, try tapping Alt once or twice to see if that refreshes the keyboard buffer and status.

You might even try tapping the other toggle/special keys as well, such as Ctrl, Shift, Esc…

I realize Windows and Linux are like comparing bananas to oranges, but still, the keyboard buffer might not be getting refreshed properly when switching apps.

It’s worth a try, do let us know if this helps in any way.

At this rate, probably a tax and tariff on the right to breathe air.

Sure, why not? I guess you might as well just say you would like to do away with menopause if you could, that works 👍

Knowing M$, yeah, they probably lock all the attached drives when in hybrid shutdown mode.

I’d still try either Shift+Shutdown, or as another commented suggested, just disable Fast Boot.

Yeah, Linux supports filenames with characters such as colons within the filename, which are invalid filename characters in Windows ☹️

Windows by default uses a ‘hybrid shutdown’ to allow for faster booting times. It’s basically halfway between sleep mode and hibernate mode, which basically means Windows isn’t actually fully shut down, so all file changes haven’t been fully written to disk and Windows still has open files.

You should do a full shutdown from within Windows first. Unless M$ has changed something that I’m not aware of, that should be just as simple as holding Shift when you hit Shutdown.

The same way rich prick Americans drive vehicles made by modern Nazis. They either don’t know, don’t care, or hope that everyone else just eventually forgets the tragedies of the past.

Also, 1474560 / 1024 = 1440

If anyone could keep up with binary numbers back in the day, floppy disks were literally measured in binary megabytes.

Modified versions of various blank floppies
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These modifications reduce the number of
FAT tables from 2 to 1 and also reduce the
number of root entries down to 16 files,
which frees up some extra storage space.

The 1.72MB format can ONLY be used on Win9X
systems on real hardware, as not even WinNT
can access tracks 81 or 82 on floppy disks.
Disk image programs like WinImage can still
access files within 1.72MB floppy images.



1.44MB Standard:
80 Tracks		18 Sectors/Track
2880 Sectors Total	1474560 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 1	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 224	Sectors Per FAT: 9
1457664 Bytes Data

1.44MB Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1470464 Bytes Data

Differences:
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12800 Bytes More, 160 Less Root Entries



1.68MB Standard:
80 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3360 Sectors Total	1720320 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 1	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 224	Sectors Per FAT: 10
1702400 Bytes Data

1.68MB Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

Differences:
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13824 Bytes More, 160 Less Root Entries



DMF 1024 Standard:
80 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3360 Sectors Total	1720320 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 2	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 16	Sectors Per FAT: 5
1714176 Bytes Data

DMF 1024 Maxed:
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

2048 Bytes More, 48 More Root Entries



DMF 2048 Standard:
80 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3360 Sectors Total	1720320 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 16	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

DMF 2048 Maxed:
-------------------------------------------
Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1716224 Bytes Data

Differences:
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0 Bytes More, 48 More Root Entries



1.72MB Standard:
82 Tracks		21 Sectors/Track
3444 Sectors Total	1763328 Bytes Total
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Sectors Per Cluster: 1	Number of FATs: 2
Max Root Entries: 224	Sectors Per FAT: 10
1745408 Bytes Data

1.72MB Maxed:
-------------------------------------------
Sectors Per Cluster: 4	Number of FATs: 1
Max Root Entries: 64	Sectors Per FAT: 3
1759232 Bytes Data

Differences:
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13824 Bytes More, 160 Less Root Entries

If you’re interested in the blank disk images themselves, let me know.

The floppy disk format is based on the FAT12 file system.

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~johnsojr/2012-13/fall/cs370/resources/UnderstandingFAT12.pdf

And with enough creative tweaks to that file system, you can get DMF 1.68MB format, and if you think a bit outside the box and erase the redundant secondary FAT table and settle on a max of only 16 files on the disk, you can squeeze a few more kilobytes out of that even.

I actually made a number of custom modded blank disk images with more storage space, I might dig out the full specs of all the variants later.

I had no significant outside world problems in the 90s and early 2000s.

You could get repair manuals and replacement parts for practically anything, and you could even get away with blowing up ant beds in your yard with improv devices.

Everything seemed to change after Hurricane Katrina though, like the flood waters wiped out all the ant beds I wanted to blow up… 😢

You forgot strawberry flavored septic tank salesman, and that was in 1998, everyone knows that.

Did you know that only 23% of social media users know how to write with pencil and paper?

It’s true, I pulled that information from my ass Encyclopedia Britannica.

I’m having trouble understanding this IKEA manual. How many nuts do I have to get before I insert Tab A into Slot B?

Yes, this is the way. Make sure to shit on your couch wife once in a while. Gotta fuzz the fuzz once in a fuzz…

Look here you little empty corn cob, computers don’t need electricity, they can live on hopes and dreams.

Not exactly, not if all the fleshbags talk well defined random nonsense, then Elvis will raise from the dead and the Flying Spaghetti Monster will endorse Michael Jackson for president.

Why yes, I do toast bread in the bathtub, thanks for the recipe!

About one floppy disk, with a little free space to spare.

I was 15, and had a dream of my girlfriend standing on the side of the street in daylight, and somehow her belly button somehow turned into something like a black hole, but still flesh colored, and she got sucked into oblivion.

Hey, dreams can definitely be weird like that. 🤷‍♂️