A Method to Disable The Left Windows Key
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:07 pm
In another topic the following was stated.
Open up you favorite text editor (Notepad., NotePad++, etc.) and paste the following into it.
Save the file to something that you will remember like "LeftWindowKeyDisable.reg". The go to the folder in which you stored the file and double click on it. You will need to have administrator privileges to run the file. After executing the file, log off or reboot.
To re-enable the key use place this in a file and follow the procedure described above.
The left Windows-Key can be quite annoying especially when playing on a server that does not tolerate alt-tabbing and you hit it by mistake; so I thought that I would share this little bit of Windows Registry Voodoo with the forum on how to disable the left Windows-Key. This is all based on the Microsoft documentation referenced in the code block.Red Spot wrote:One that note, I oh so hate it when games require the -ctrl- key but not disable the windows key ... (and yet I still havent looked for a work around)
Open up you favorite text editor (Notepad., NotePad++, etc.) and paste the following into it.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
;Ref: Scan Code Mapper for Windows, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463447
;1st 4 bytes: Header - All Zeroes[hex:00,00,00,00,00]
;Next 4 Bytes: Flags - All Zeroes[hex:00,00,00,00,||00,00,00,00]
;Next 4 Bytes: # of mappings (including null entry terminator) [hex:00,00,00,00,||00,00,00,00,||02,00,00,00]
;Next 4 Bytes: Individual Mapping(4 bytes per mapping) [hex:00,00,00,00,||00,00,00,00,||02,00,00,00,||00,00,5B,E0]
;ScanCode Ref: download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/1/161ba512-40e2-4cc9-843a-923143f3456c/translate.pdf
;Use PS/2 Set 1 Make Column
;Finally 4 byte null terminator [hex:00,00,00,00,||00,00,00,00,||02,00,00,00,||00,00,5B,E0,||00,00,00,00]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,5B,E0,00,00,00,00To re-enable the key use place this in a file and follow the procedure described above.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=-
