Hi, so for the last like 5 years whenever I've played on pc I always used a nintendo switch controller, and it's always worked basically flawlessly. However recently for the last few days it's been doing this weird thing where whenever I press the windows button or the volume button or I alt tab etc, it like freaks out and does a bunch of random stuff? I thought at first it was spamming tab constantly but I'm not so sure now since it's been doing things like opening settings and turning night light on too.
Now it still works fine when playing games as far as I can tell, it's just whenever I do the above it basically makes it impossible to control the windows menus thingies. I've attempted a lot things to fix it but it feels like I can't find anything online about my specific issue. Actually one thing I tried worked which was having a game opened and then opening task manager, but for some reason the next time I tried it it didn't work.
The only thing I could possibly think that could've cause this is that the power went out while it was connected to my pc a few days ago but idk if that has anything to do with it as everything else I have works fine. I should note I am using it wired and I would like to avoid using wireless as I've been unable to do it in the past. I've tried using a different cable, plugging the cable into a different usb port. I've also tried changing come controller settings on steam including steam input and the non-game controller layouts however none of those did anything.
I'd really appreciate if you can help since I'd rather keep using the switch pro controller instead of using a different controller and I need the ability to change tabs easily. I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this so if you know a better subreddit please let me know. Thanks in advance! (idk what to tag this sorry)