Spacebar Hand tool not working

Question

Hi everyone,

I've recently installed Illustrator along with other apps on my new windows machine. Every thing was working fine. Then I updated Photoshop and Illustrator and my spacebar hand tool stoped working on "all adobe applications". I've tried my best to find solution online and have tried every available solution already.

I am not new to Adobe applications so I thought I could figure something out but failed.

The situation is, when I press the spacebar from my keyboard, I can see the handtool and it move when I move the mouse but my artboard is not moving. One thing I've noticed is when I press the spacebar, the object I've selected in illustrator activate the nodes which we only see when we select "direct selection" tool from the toolbar. Please see attached pictures.

Monika Gause · Answer

A couple of third party apps and also some settings are interfering with Illustrator's modifier keys. The following have been identified so far. There might be others:

WebRoot
Apple Terminal
Word, Excel, Powerpoint
»Enable Full Keyboard« in Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard on Mac OS
Apple Mail, Outlook
Spacebar is used as a shortcut by the system
Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari
Wacom Desktop Center, Wacom settings
Windows Touch Pad problem
LastPass, Bitwarden (password managers)
The VPN
LangSwitcher app (it needs to be closed and disabled)
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