{"id":10201,"date":"2017-10-10T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=10201"},"modified":"2017-10-10T03:46:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T03:46:03","slug":"disable-f1-key-from-opening-help-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/disable-f1-key-from-opening-help-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable F1 Key from Opening Help in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can I stop F1 key from opening Windows Help when gaming? In Windows 8 and 7, pressing F1 key opens Windows Help and Support by default. If you&#8217;re using Windows 10, pressing F1 will open a browser window and search for &#8220;<em>how to get help in windows 10<\/em>&#8221; on Bing. It can be really annoying when you keep hitting the F1 key accidentally. Here is the best way to disable F1 key from opening help in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/windows-help-and-support.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10203\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Disable F1 Key from Opening Help in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the registry fix from <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/disable-f1-key-for-help.zip\">this link<\/a>. It is a zip archive which contains two .reg files.<\/li>\n<li>Next, double-click the <em>disable-f1-key-for-help.reg<\/em> file to import\/merge its contents to the registry.<\/li>\n<li>This registry changes take effect without restart. Now press F1 key will no longer open the Help window in Windows. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> this wouldn&#8217;t prevent F1 key from working in a game or third-party programs.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I stop F1 key from opening Windows Help when gaming? In Windows 8 and 7, pressing F1 key opens Windows Help and Support by default. If you&#8217;re using Windows 10, pressing F1 will open a browser window and search for &#8220;how to get help in windows 10&#8221; on Bing. It can be really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894,3,39],"tags":[3553,3554,3552],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-disable-f1-help-windows-10","tag-disable-how-to-get-help-in-windows-10","tag-stop-f1-from-opening-windows-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10207,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions\/10207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}