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First post, by AustinRover

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I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this in. I was looking for a way of disabling the Windows key after accidentally hitting it in the middle of playing Tomb Raider 1 through Glidos. This caused me to lose where I was in the game as it doesn't restore once you've gone back to the Windows desktop.

I downloaded a couple of programs that were meant to do this but neither worked on my Win7 64-bit machine, so I wrote my own.

In case it's useful for other people playing old games who don't want to accidentally press the Win key or ALT+TAB etc... I've uploaded it here:

http://www.valkressman.plus.com/winkeyzap.html

I'd be interested to hear what people think about it. I did try it on one XP machine and it crashed (just my program, not the OS!), so if XP users could try it that would be great. In theory it should work on any Windows with .NET Framework 3. As it's experimental, please be sure to save anything you don't want to lose as I don't know what unexpected side effects it may have.

Reply 1 of 4, by Davros

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worked for me in xp
although I dont need it as my keyboard is fully customisable
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Reply 2 of 4, by SKARDAVNELNATE

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Running XP. I use WinKey Killer.

Reply 3 of 4, by AustinRover

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WinKey Killer was one of the ones I tried. It doesn't work on Win 7 64-bit. The task runs but doesn't disable the keys.

Reply 4 of 4, by HunterZ

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My Logitech G15 keyboard has a physical switch on it to disable the Windows key.