Disable Windows Key Windows 10

Question

The header says most of it. I'm trying to find a way to disable the windows key either through GPO, local policy, or an edit in registry, but Google has been less than helpful.

Solution

Like CJ1992 says (I could not comment unfortunately hence new post), but the AutoHotkey syntax now seems to be (it might be that I use 1.1.30.00 - August 22, 2018 version):

LWin::return
RWin::return

quoted from AutoHotkey site

Comments

[Alex K]

How to enable or disable the keyboard Windows key ?

[MrPalindrome]

Thanks for the reply, but none of those things worked on my machine.

[vembutech]

Open regedit. On the Windows menu, click HKEY_LOCAL_ MACHINE on Local Machine. Double-click the System\CurrentControlSet\Control folder, and then click the Keyboard Layout folder. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, type in Scancode Map, click REG_BINARY as the Data Type, and then click OK. Type 00000000000000000300000000005BE000005CE000000000 in the Data field, and then click OK. Close Registry Editor and restart the computer.

[MrPalindrome]

@vembutech this is the same instruction that has been posted here already, it didn't work for me, but thanks anyways.

[AlexD]

One thing we will notice, specially in these days of "working from home" is that the mapping will not be seen when doing a remote desktop connection since the mappings are for a local keyboard only. This took me a while to figure out since I am doing RD from a Mac computer. The solution was Autohotkey as others mention.

[CJ1992]

Thanks for the formatting help. Could not seem to be able to do it for the life of me :D

[Admin]

You can check out the code on my GitHub, github.com/Booooozo/Disable-Windows-Key