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Windows 2000 - Disable the keyboard shortcuts

November 30, 2013
Updated: December 6, 2021
Quick overview:

The Windows key opens various functions or programs, such as Windows Help, in conjunction with other keys. If you accidentally press it from time to time and this bothers you, you can also switch it off completely:

1. Click in succession on Start/Execute and enter in the command line regedit on. The editor for editing the Windows registration appears.

2. Make your way through the keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\W indows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. In the right-hand pane, right-click on a free space. A context menu appears in which you can select New/DWORD Value decide.

3. You give this self-created value the name NoWinKeys. Double-click on it and enter a 1 inside. After a restart, the buttons simply no longer respond.

NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.

Founded Windows Tweaks as a teenager in the 90s. His helpful PC tricks made it Germany's most visited Windows site (at the time Sandro looked like this). He then went on to write elsewhere, for example for PC-Praxis, Computer Bild and PCWorld in the USA. Microsoft also poached him from us. Now Sandro is back, finally sharing his tweaks here again. For a stress-free digital everyday life. You can reach Sandro via e-mail.

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