Why is sims 4 disabling my ESC key from time to time?

Legoman01134​  When this happens, does the ESC key stop working outside of the game too.  Does it help to switch from fullscreen to windowed mode and back?

And just checking, but can you still open the menu by clicking the three dots?  I'd like to be sure the issue is the key and not that the menu is failing to open.

I honestly don't know how to test it outside of sims without booting up another game, it started working again after pressing the windows key a couple of time (mostly to check in on the forum) 

Anyway i can remember that the three dots still worked when the ESC button didn't work.

Legoman01134​  There are other apps that use the key for various reasons.  If you can't think of one you already have installed, Windows key-esc closes the Magnifier, so you could open it and then test.

Well now it's kinda hard to test since it have started to work again, but i will try to remember to try it out next time it start to stop working again.