How to disable the Windows logo key in the Win8 system

Speaking of the Windows logo key on the keyboard (commonly known as the Win key), I believe many people love and hate it. On the one hand, it gives us a lot of convenience, and can quickly call out the start menu. And it also has a lot of shortcut key combination functions, hate is when playing game shortcuts fly, accidentally press the Win button, jump to the desktop start menu, very frustrating, if it is more In the critical moment of the game of people, it is easy to cause player losses. So more often you may want to disable the Win key.

If you intend to completely disable the Win key, you can refer to the following methods:

1. Run the Registry Editor and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Keyboard Layout;

Note: There is a very close Keyboard Layouts, don't choose the wrong one.

2, in the right window, create a new "ldeq; binary value", named "“Scancode Map";;

3, give "Scancode Map", value string Longer, you need to be careful when typing: “00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 5b e0 00 00 5c e0 00 00 00 00”.

4, after the completion of exit Registry Editor, restart your computer for the changes to take effect. When you need to restore the Win key, delete the above binary value, and then restart to restore the Win key.

Win8.1 shields the hotkey function of the Win key

In addition to completely shielding the Win key, there is a semi-shielded method, which is to shield only the hotkey function of the Win key. Keeping the effect of pressing the Win button alone may be more appropriate in some cases than a complete shield. The method is as follows:

1. Start “Local Group Policy Editor>, navigate to: User Configuration -- Administrative Template -- Windows Components -- File Explorer;

2 In the list on the right, find the "Close Windows + X hotkey", double-click to change its status to "ld"; Enabled, and then close the window to restart the computer.

Both methods can effectively shield Win key, it makes use of Win8 system comes with tools, but some slightly complicated operation, someday you want to re-enable Win key, they might I feel very troublesome. In this regard, we can also use third-party software to disable the Win key, like the Win key masker, the operation is simple, one button is forbidden, and then will be minimized to the system tray, when entering the full-screen game, the Win button will not bother us. It is. Of course, the Win key is still a very useful key, so don't ignore the role of it.