How do I disable the start menu button on keyboard??

[Nobi125]

I have windows XP home edition and I can not figure out how to disable the start menu button on the keyboard. Thanks in advance to any help.

[ari4324]

The best solution seems to be just removing it with some sort of prying tool

[Ginsu543]

This may be overkill but you could always buy a cheap older keyboard that doesn't have a menu button. On my rig, I use the original IBM PS2 keyboard (from my dad's computer he bought in 1985) and I love it! They just don't make keyboards like that anymore. It doesn't have a Start button or a Menu button on it. I did use a Microsoft Power Toys program called KeyRemap to remap my right Ctrl button as my Start button. This way, I don't have to worry about a useless Menu button.

[Ace]

That menu button is pretty useful... especially when Windows messes up and disables your mouse form working... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">

[Zefram]

What's wrong with the start menu botton? i find it useful (kind of)<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif" border="0">

[Iceman]

those of you who get the pcstats newsletter it is in there<BR><BR>Quote:<BR><BR>The Windows key on the keyboard can be very handy, but it can also get in the way when playing FPS games. On more than a few occasions I've hit that button by accident, causing me to drop back to Windows desktop, and get killed in the game. Should this happen when you're playing competitively online it can seriously affect your rankings! <BR><BR>Luckily it's something that can be fixed with a simple registry tweak, first load up regedit (Start -> Run -> Regedit then press ok) and follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> Keyboard Layout. Once you're there right click and create a new binary value. You'll want to edit its value and enter this...<BR><BR>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 5B E0 00 00 5C E0 00 00 00 00<BR><BR>Save, then reboot your PC. After that's done you should notice that the windows key *no longer functions* which I'm sure is good news to some of you out there. This works in all versions of Windows.