Re: Application Key on Keyboard - How to Disable it in Windows XP?

This would be a driver issue. I think you're going to have to get another
keyboard.

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"Don Enderton" wrote:
| This is a highly technical question; if this is the wrong group, please
| point me to the right one:
|
| Please tell me step by step what changes to make in the registry in
Windows
| XP to disable the "application key" which is the key between the right
| Windows key and the right Ctrl key on keyboards. This is a PS/2 keyboard,
| not a USB keyboard.
|
| (Our keyboard is constructed in such a way that we often mistakenly press
| the application key while trying to press the right Shift key. We never,
| otherwise, use the application key and want to make it dead.)
|
| Some technical information is here but I can't translate that into
| instructions I can follow to do what I want:
|
| http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/Scancode.mspx
|
| Thanks in advance to anyone who can and will help.
|
| (Otherwise I shall have to purchase a different keyboard, one shaped such
| that it will be harder to hit the application key by mistake. This
keyboard
| came with a new Gateway computer and someone designed it who is not a
typist
| but likes its looks...so the application key is not lower than the shift
| key - instead its surface smoothly blends into the shift key. Not good.)
|
|


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