{"id":9409,"date":"2017-05-18T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=9409"},"modified":"2017-05-18T07:19:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T07:19:56","slug":"disable-specific-windows-key-shortcut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/disable-specific-windows-key-shortcut\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Disable Specific Windows Key Shortcut in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to disable a certain global shortcut key that conflicts with an application-specific hotkey? Sometimes or even frequently though, you may activate a hotkey accidentally? In this tutorial we’ll show you a simple way to disable specific Windows key shortcut in Windows 10, 8 and 7.<\/p>\n

How to Disable Specific Windows Key Shortcut in Windows?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows logo key + R combination to open the Run box. Type regedit<\/strong> and hit Enter.\n

    \"regedit\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. When the Registry Editor opens, navigate to the following key:
    \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced<\/code><\/li>\n
  3. Right-click on the Advanced<\/strong> key in the left pane, and then select New<\/strong> -> String Value<\/strong> from the context menu.\n

    \"new-string-value\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. Name it DisabledHotkeys<\/strong>, and set its value data to the characters of hotkeys you want to disable.\n

    \"DisabledHotkeys\"<\/p>\n

    \tFor example, set it to S<\/strong>. This will disable Win + S, Win + Shift + S, and other shortcuts that using Windows key and the disabled characters you specified.
    \nSet it to SA<\/strong> to disable both Win + S and Win + A hotkeys.
    \nAnd so on.<\/li>\n

  5. Reboot your computer and the hotkeys you specified will become disabled. If you want to restore the original hotkeys to work, just delete the DisabledHotkeys<\/strong> value and you’re done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How to disable a certain global shortcut key that conflicts with an application-specific hotkey? Sometimes or even frequently though, you may activate a hotkey accidentally? In this tutorial we’ll show you a simple way to disable specific Windows key shortcut in Windows 10, 8 and 7. How to Disable Specific Windows Key Shortcut in Windows? […]<\/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":[2848],"class_list":["post-9409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-disable-windows-key-shortcuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409","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=9409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9415,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9409\/revisions\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}