Sunday, 16 November 2014

HOW TO DISABLE WINDOWS HOTKEYS

HOW TO DISABLE WINDOWS HOTKEYS

It is possible to prevent users from using the windows shortcut hot-keys like ALT, TAB and other by simply following the steps given below:

  • step 1: open the regedit.exe file 
  • step 2: scroll to or create the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies  then explore 
  • step 3: in the right pane, create a new DWORD value named NoWinKeys within the above registry key and set its data value to 1 to disable the windows hotkeys, and to 0 to enable them.
  • step 4: exit the registry and restart the windows session for to change to be applied.

it is possible to implement the above by simply creating and double clickingn a .reg extention file containing the data given below (to create a .reg file simply open notepad, copy and paste the below instructions into it and then save the file with any file name a .reg extenstion)
  REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer]
 
then "NoWinKeys"="1"

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