On a related note on my less-than-heralded return to gaming, I rediscovered something that really puts my panties in a bunch: the left-side Windows key.
You know what I’m talking about. You’re in the middle of a map, and your pinky hits it, leaving your character dead in the water until your ALT+TAB fu kicks in and you switch back to the game.
Well, there is a solution: the registry.
You can create a new a new binary value in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout named “Scancode Map” with a value of 00000000000000000200000000005BE000000000, or you can download and run this registry patch.
NOTE: this only disables the LEFT Windows Key.
Either way, you need to reboot to see the difference. Happy fraggin’ y’all.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Or… you can just pry the wicked little key from your keyborard.