Escape Key and Cancel Command not working

[Anonymous]

Yesterday I was cruising along as normal when all of the sudden my escape key stopped working.  I believe it happened after I accidentally loaded the dbconnection manager or something similar but not sure.  When I envoke a command, the escape key does nothing.  When I select something and hit the escape key, it doesn't deselect everything.  I know it's not my keyboard because I'm using a laptop and both the attached keyboard and the keyboard on the laptop function the same in that the escape key doesn't work.  I also have a Logitech Performance MX with a button set as the escape command and that doesn't work.  When I type in cancel or ^c^c, the response is "unknown command".  I have searched the discussion boards and have given up and am hoping that someone knows how to fix this in a jiffy.  Thanks in advance for your help.

[Anonymous]

Quit Photoshop!! My dear god, thank you for that! I was going insane!!

[Anonymous]

I'm having this problem now too.  No escape key function...all of a sudden.  Has anyone figured it out?  Also, why is the escape key nowhere to be found in the help menu?  It gave me some useless article on something called "is_cancel" when I searched "esc key"  or "escape key".  Does anyone know how to get my escape key functioning again???

[Anonymous]

Dear You Have to close photoshop application and then it will work

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Thanks and Best Regards
A.M.Yafai

[Anonymous]

Dear You Have to close photoshop application and then it will work

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Thanks and Best Regards
A.M.Yafai

[Anonymous]

usu2002...THANK YOU!

This was also driving me crazy and Photoshop was the culprit. I don't think I'd have ever made that connection.

[Anonymous]

Also had this problem, for people doing PLC programming make sure any Omron CX-Designer Programs are closed as well. It appears to have the same effect as photoshop that others had described.

[Anonymous]

Thank you SO much. This was driving me absolutely crazy. Indeed, the second I closed my photoshop the esc worked again. So relieving 🙂

[Anonymous]

I also had this issue, however no Photoshop installed.  Based on your resolution though I discovered it was due to Teamviewer being connected to a remote computer.  I closed Teamviewer and bingo.

[Anonymous]

OMG! You are my hero! You are my knight in shining amour. So easy but so many hours wasted. Should have started here! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Your welcome! I never imagined this situation would come up after this many years. I’m glad it is helping others and saving time.

[Anonymous]

Worked for me,  I had problems with my ESC button aswel.  Closed photoshop, ESC button works fine again.

[Anonymous]

Thanks!!!!

[Anonymous]

Your welcome!

[JBrass]

My escape key stopped working suddenly in Revit 2016, but it still works in AutoCad 2015.  I do not have Photoshop or any of the other programs listed in people's questions, loaded on my computer.  It's Windows and I'm using Windows 7 Professional for years now.

Any ideas what could be causing this?  I'm not happy...

[Anonymous]

Another program is blocking its use close your other programs and see if that fixes it.

[JBrass]

thanks, I only had Outlook and Chrome open to write this post, but a shut down and restart worked.  Why do I never think of that first?  ;o)

[Anonymous]

happened to me too..as soon as I closed PhotoShop, esc work right away. Using AutoCad Architecture 2016. bizarre..

[albionpjl]

 This happens to me all the time. I'll be working and suddenly escape, cancel. save, change layer, select, stop working.
It only started doing this with C3d 2017.
I usually have to close C3d down completely and restart it in order to regain the commands. Luckily, I usually fond out that save DID work, it just didn't report that it had done anything.

The suggested solutions don't help because I do not have Photoshop or any of the other listed software.
It's like the Cad window stops refreshing.

[Anonymous]

Same thing happened to me with InDesign open. Thanks for the great catch...it was driving me mad!