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 14635 Registration date Friday October 30, 2015 Status Moderator Last seen January 26, 2025 1,868
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.


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.,

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.