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Reassign or disable "Windows" Key on a laptop keyboard.

Hello,
I have toshiba satellite M30 laptop and run win XP home on it. It's keyboard has couple of keys that I never use such as "windows" key. Clicking this "Windows" key makes "Start" menu pop up. Now I use source code editor where I want to assign one of the editing functions to this key.
I successfully did that and when I press this key while in the editor - editor does it's operation nicely, but after that Windows "Start" menu keeps always popping up.
Can I disable this key for Windows somehow to avoid it popping the "Start" menu every time?

Thanks in advance

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Rupesh Krishna

To disable Windows key at runtime you must hook keyboard.
Unfortunately to do this system wide it must be done in dll.

There is a source code and sample app in Pieter's Delphi Corner: http://home.hccnet.nl/p.zylstra/downloads.htm
Winhook v1.00 source download: http://home.hccnet.nl/p.zylstra/downloads/winhook.zip

Also I found a small, working and freeware app that do this very well (tested on Windows XP):
http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/majorgeeks/input/wkeykill17.zip

Rupesh Krishna

char c;
// disable key
SystemParametersInfo ( SPI_SCREENSAVERRUNNING, 1, (void*) &c, 0);

char c;
// enable key
SystemParametersInfo ( SPI_SCREENSAVERRUNNING, 0, (void*) &c, 0);

Reassign or disable &quot;Windows&quot; Key on a laptop keyboard.

Reassign or disable "Windows" Key on a laptop keyboard.