Disabling only SOME windows hotkeys

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Sebastian42 Posts 63 Registration date Tuesday March 30, 2010 Status Member Last seen May 2, 2024 - Sep 25, 2023 at 09:02 AM
Sebastian42 Posts 63 Registration date Tuesday March 30, 2010 Status Member Last seen May 2, 2024 - Oct 2, 2023 at 06:33 PM

In x32Win10ProV22H2, I would like more keys available to put 'proprietory' links on (using Autohotkey). When I tried the method shown in How to Disable Specific Windows Key Shortcut in Windows | Password Recovery to free up keys-for-windows-shortcuts, there were keys for which that did not work. The method involved adding the letters I want to free up, to the 'value data' of Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Disabled Hotkeys. Is there a more reliable method ? Other methods do not distinguish between using the left and the right WIN key, and most aim to kill ALL combinations - something I specifically do NOT want to do. For the left-Win key, I want to disable only Y, and for the right-Win key I want to disable only A, F, P, R, U and ;

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HelpiOS Posts 14591 Registration date Friday October 30, 2015 Status Moderator Last seen December 22, 2024 1,879
Oct 2, 2023 at 08:49 AM

Hi,

I have found some documentation on overriding and disabling external hotkeys using AutoHotkey. See also this page for hotkeys usage and syntax.

Hope that helps.


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Sebastian42 Posts 63 Registration date Tuesday March 30, 2010 Status Member Last seen May 2, 2024 3
Oct 2, 2023 at 09:02 AM

That looks VERY promising - thank you so much. Will report back when I have tried it.,

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Sebastian42 Posts 63 Registration date Tuesday March 30, 2010 Status Member Last seen May 2, 2024 3
Oct 2, 2023 at 06:33 PM

I do not need to free up keys after all, as Autohotkeys frees them up itself. I unwisely posted the question on an assumption without testing first.

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