Disabling your windows key! (Big Time Saver)

**Felony-Illusion** · 06-29-09, 11:58 PM

This is a tutorial that will help you disable your windows key. It's nice to disable it because when you are gaming and you are about to crouch, you might accidently tap the key and that can be frustrating in tight scenarios. If you have any more questions about why you would disable it, ask me or any of the members that know why

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-===Tutorial===-
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit32, and then click OK. In Vista, type Regedit in Search Box under Start)
2. On the Windows menu, click HKEY_LOCAL_ MACHINE on Local Machine.
3. Click the System\CurrentControlSet\Control folder, and then double-click the Keyboard Layout folder.
4. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, type in Scancode Map, click REG_BINARY as the Data Type, and then click OK.
5. Type 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 5B E0 00 00 5C E0 00 00 00 00 in the Data field, and then click OK.
6. Close the Registry Editor and restart the computer.
Basically all came from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216893 and http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/06/19/i...g-windows-key/ (i prefer the microsoft one).

To Enable your windows key back you obviously just get rid of the file you named Scancode Map

**fly351** · 06-30-09, 05:48 AM

oh thank god.. i am doing this tonight.

**THATriggerHappy** · 06-30-09, 11:30 AM

is it supposed to be "regedit 32"? cause regedit32 doesnt work for me.

**railed** · 06-30-09, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by THATriggerHappy

is it supposed to be "regedit 32"? cause regedit32 doesnt work for me.

it's just: regedit

**Sora** · 06-30-09, 12:10 PM

truth be told. I rip the windows key off of all of my keyboards after 1 event.

level 97 Sorc *hardcore of course* Diablo2 LOD, Running hell baal teleporting through WSC.
Window key. Get back ingame.

"Your deeds of valor will be remebered"

GG of 18 hour days of farming levels for 4 months straight to get GG'd by a key....

**SAMBO** · 06-30-09, 12:16 PM

Ahh yes...i did this last night in a scrim. Good thing I was still in spawn and this happend in the first 3 seconds of the round. I'll try this out when i get home tonight.

**idunn** · 06-30-09, 12:16 PM

or you can buy/steal/acquire the logitech g15 keyboard that has the windows key lock-out on it 8)

**flame** · 06-30-09, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by idunn

or you can buy/steal/acquire the logitech g15 keyboard that has the windows key lock-out on it 8)

yep best solution, good keyboard, no trouble, slide the little switch right and thats it.

**Glitch** · 06-30-09, 12:29 PM

Put me down as another G15 user

**Heart Of Malice** · 06-30-09, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Sora

truth be told. I rip the windows key off of all of my keyboards after 1 event.

level 97 Sorc *hardcore of course* Diablo2 LOD, Running hell baal teleporting through WSC.
Window key. Get back ingame.

"Your deeds of valor will be remebered"

GG of 18 hour days of farming levels for 4 months straight to get GG'd by a key....

My heart goes out to you man, that game sucked 2 years of my life. I can't imagine getting taken out like that like that.

why did they even start putting the windows key on keyboards? does anyone ever intentionally use it?