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Offline atlau

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Disable Windows Button in AH
« on: June 20, 2013, 04:25:55 PM »
How about an easy way to disable the windows button in AH w/o having to mess w/ the registry? Is that possible. I'm tired of trying to zoom in my view only to find my desktop!

Offline gyrene81

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Re: Disable Windows Button in AH
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2013, 05:00:07 PM »
been a long time since i had that issue and i can't remember if i have any other games that ignore it...but if it's possible for ah to over ride a default windows function, ok.

button on your joystick can be mapped to zoom...or pull the key off your keyboard.
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Re: Disable Windows Button in AH
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2013, 05:12:11 PM »
It can be disabled from within Windows.  I don't think it can be done by AH.
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Re: Disable Windows Button in AH
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2013, 05:13:30 PM »
It can also be disabled easily on most keyboard by using a screwdriver or a knife.
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Offline atlau

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Re: Disable Windows Button in AH
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2013, 06:00:33 PM »
yeah.. i'm not looking to pull off a key off my laptop tho...

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Re: Disable Windows Button in AH
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2013, 06:19:53 PM »
If you don't have a feature on your keyboard to disable the windows key, then the registry fix is pretty much your only solution.  There are some little programs out there (use at your own risk) that do the registry entry for you if you don't feel like doing manually yourself.

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Re: Disable Windows Button in AH
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2013, 11:26:36 AM »
Ah, that is right.  Ack-Ack's post joggled my memory.  There is a patch that you can get from Microsoft to disable it.
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