windows key

[seano]

since we now have a pop up
"are you sure" window for alt f4. do ya think you could do the same thing for the "windows" key.

and please tell me how to "instant " down aces high so we can have a new alt f4 joke!

[coombz]

pretty sure you can disable the windows key in Windows control panel somewhere

I have got in the habit of using windows key + D often though, to minimize all windows. come to think of it, windows key + D could be a slightly less effective stand in for ALT+F4...tabbing out of the game tends to crash AH for a lot of people I believe, so it's nearly the same effect 

[crazyivan]

oo eee walla,walla bing bang.

[icepac]

I think disabling the ability to minimize AH would greatly reduce the complaints of cheating because it would greatly complicate doing so.

[LCADolby]

I think disabling the ability to minimize AH would greatly reduce the complaints of cheating because it would greatly complicate doing so.

[caldera]

since we now have a pop up
"are you sure" window for alt f4. do ya think you could do the same thing for the "windows" key.

and please tell me how to "instant " down aces high so we can have a new alt f4 joke!

I removed that horrible windows key from my keyboard. 

[Hawk55]

pretty sure you can disable the windows key in Windows control panel somewhere

Here are 2 methods to disable the windows key...

Key Tweak--  http://www.tucows.com/preview/327616
or
Microsoft "Fix-It"-- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216893

[grizz441]

Use a pair of pliers and extract the cancerous key(s).

[Gman]

I used to remove them with pliers as well, but my latest keyboard, the mechanical Razer Blackwidow has a function key that disables the windows key.  I turned it on when it first came out of the box on to my desk, and haven't turned it off since.  Stupid windows key, you're history pal!

[Krusty]

Windows key is perfectly fine, quite useful, and the few first times you hit it SHOULD teach you to look where you are typing.

You'd no more disable it than you would the ENTER key.

[grizz441]

Windows key is perfectly fine, quite useful, and the few first times you hit it SHOULD teach you to look where you are typing.

You'd no more disable it than you would the ENTER key.

Hmmm, interesting take.  I used to use "z" for zoom in and I never looked down at the keyboard while I was zooming in to fire.  I hit the correct key 95% of the time but when I missed it, I hit the windows key and it obviously minimized my game. 

And you are comparing the usefulness of the windows key to the enter key?  Now I know you are trolling.

[Krusty]

No, trolling would be to call somebody a troll that has simply pointed out some basic info.

Your inability to hit the Z key accurately is not to be placed as a burden on others that can. The best solution? Map zoom to your joystick. Or to another key... I find it is one of the most important aiming tools since we all fly around with such wide FOVs, that I devote a button on my stick to it, even if my stick has limited button options. Fire, Secondary fire, zoom, it was the 3rd most important button to map any time I had to set up a new stick or a re-install.

Remember all the accidental bailouts in AH history, because the ENTER key was the bail key? For those of us that typed 3 lines fast it would bail out of our planes. The solution? Not to recode how ENTER works, but rather to remap what I used as my "hit 3 times to bail" key. While others had it happen to them, it stopped happening to me. I would share this advice to them as well ("remap the bail key!").

Hopefully you will see this is simply adding perspective to the issue. There is no trolling taking place.


 

[grizz441]

Your inability to hit the Z key accurately is not to be placed as a burden on others that can. The best solution? Map zoom to your joystick. Or to another key... I find it is one of the most important aiming tools since we all fly around with such wide FOVs, that I devote a button on my stick to it, even if my stick has limited button options. Fire, Secondary fire, zoom, it was the 3rd most important button to map any time I had to set up a new stick or a re-install.

Thanks for the tip.  I said that I used to use the zoom key on the keyboard.  I believe I still use X for autopilot though, which I will quickly press to reset my trim if I trimmed to pull out of a compressed dive in my K4.  

In addition, never did I blame anyone for my inability to hit my keys correctly with my neanderthalistic ham fisted ways.  I simply stated that the windows key is worthless and if it gets in the way, just remove it with pliers.  What I also find incredibly amusing is that Microsoft gives not one, but two windows keys.  My windows key on the left side of my keyboard has been dislodged and discarded for over 2 years now.  I never had a reason to remove the windows key on the right side of my keyboard because I never have used hotkeys in that area.  I also have never used the windows key for any reason.

Remember all the accidental bailouts in AH history, because the ENTER key was the bail key? For those of us that typed 3 lines fast it would bail out of our planes. The solution? Not to recode how ENTER works, but rather to remap what I used as my "hit 3 times to bail" key. While others had it happen to them, it stopped happening to me. I would share this advice to them as well ("remap the bail key!").

Actually IIRC, HiTech did make some modifications to the way the enter three times bail command works to eliminate the potential for errant bails.  

Hopefully you will see this is simply adding perspective to the issue. There is no trolling taking place.

I still call troll.  You did not even address my major critique of your first post.  How is the windows key useful, and how is it even comparably useful as the enter key?  I've used my enter key on my keyboard probably over a hundred thousand times easily in my keyboards life span and have only used the windows key on accident.

[Krusty]

You apparently don't know what trolling is. 

[grizz441]

You apparently don't know what trolling is.  

How could you not be trolling?  If you weren't trolling then that would mean you actually think the windows key is of comparable importance to the enter key, which might be the most idiotic thing I have heard in 2012 thus far.  I know you are a smart guy though, so I commend you for hooking me with a delightful troll that I could not resist.  Well done well done.