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zaradek
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 Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: Disable opening the Start menu |
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How can I disable the opening of the Start menu when the Win key is pressed (and released afterwards)? I have to do it in a way which preserves all the hotkeys which use Win key as a modifyer. (There are ones existing by default and others are made by AutoHotkey.)
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engunneer
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:31 am Post subject: |
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should be as easy as
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LWin::Return
RWin::Return
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no?
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zaradek
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:32 am Post subject: |
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No, it's not good, because then mappings, such as
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became ineffective. |
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Lexikos
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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Try this:
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*LWin Up::Send {Blind}{vk00}{LWin Up}
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Sending the null keystroke before LWin UP should prevent the Start menu from displaying. It seems to work on Vista, but not the first time you press LWin.  |
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zaradek
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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It doesn't work for me on Win XP. It doesn't have effect. If I change vk00 to something else, it can stop opening the Start menu, but it ruins the other hotkeys. If you said something about what key is {vk00} and why do you use it and {Blind} at those places where you do, maybe I could make my working version.
Thanks, Máté |
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Lexikos
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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vk00 is not normally used to represent a key, so sending it should only affect applications that indiscriminately check for any key. {Blind} tells it to send the keystrokes without automatically "releasing" the other modifier keys.
I just tested on XP, and it worked exactly as it did on Vista... |
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interiot
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 12:23 am Post subject: |
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You can still open the start menu with Ctrl-Esc. Or by clicking in the system tray, presing shift-tab several times, then enter.
Probably better to find one of the gpedit.msc settings that will do it (though I didn't see one after doing a quick scan), or by detecting when the start menu is opened and killing it. |
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Krogdor
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| interiot wrote: | You can still open the start menu with Ctrl-Esc. Or by clicking in the system tray, presing shift-tab several times, then enter.
Probably better to find one of the gpedit.msc settings that will do it (though I didn't see one after doing a quick scan), or by detecting when the start menu is opened and killing it. |
He's not trying to stop the start menu from opening all together, just preventing it from doing so when the Windows key is pressed...
Also, @ Lexikos's script:
Works fine for me, except, as you said, the first time it is pressed after starting the script. Seems strange that it won't work for you, zaradek.. |
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interiot
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