Comments on: Disable Win+X Shortcut Keys on Windows 7 or Vista

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:52:41 +0000

I discovered program AutoHotKey can override all system hotkeys. Now I only need to find the way how can be Winamp controlled from AutoHotKey

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:53:21 +0000

How can I disable WIN+arrows shortcuts? This registry hack doesn’t disable these.

By: earl

earl — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:53:47 +0000

The keyboard shortcuts that I want to disable are the “CTRL” + enter and the ALT + S which send emails without use of mouse. Any ideas on disabling these?? Many Thanks

By: earl

earl — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:50:15 +0000

followed your idea to disable keyboard shortcuts in vista and it didnt disable them. any other ideas on how to do it on vista home basic?? thanks

By: JungleJim

JungleJim — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:55:22 +0000

Yes you can use Win+Keys in other apps if you use that reg trick, I use set WIN+1 WIN+2 WIN+3 and WIN+4 for virtual desktops using VirtuaWin. I just found a prog called AutoHotKey (open-source) which has more features

By: smileylich

smileylich — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:57:43 +0000

Ah, I didn’t understand… this works, but it completely disables all Win+keys, meaning you can’t use them as shortcuts in another software package.
Back to the drawing board, thanks anyway…

By: smileylich

smileylich — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:41:19 +0000

Works great; now I can go back to Winkey+number to switch between virtual desktops instead of Winkey+Alt+number.
Thanks!

By: depthcharge101

depthcharge101 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:54:02 +0000

Yeap, tried it on my vista 32bit, doesn’t work as well.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:14:55 +0000

I used the Reg Hack here and it did not work, my Win Key still works.Vista 32b, I opened Regedit and verified that the Key was added I have both logged out and restarted the computer

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:28:05 +0000

I have found this code in loads of websites unfortunatly it doesnt work for Windows XP

Ive tried restarting explorer.exe, logging off and back in and still no joy

PCTOOLS.COM forum also shows other members having this problem even though PCTOOLS.COM said its applicable to all windows version (However the last update was in 2002 prior to XP’s release), never the less XP is based on the NT system so it should work should it not?

The only thing ive not tried is a power down and power on (but restarting explorer.exe should have done it any how)

im looking for 2 registry values
1) To disable delete, copy and rename
2) to disable system keys such as WIN key, CTRL + ESC, CTRL + TAB so forth