Hotkeys

[Gig-O-Ram]

I need to find a way - if there is one - to disable the hotkey functions on my wife's keyboard. She was writing a really long RP email last night, and right before she was going to send it, she turned to me to say something when a cat walked over the keyboard, hit some key and deleted it. She was not impressed.

I checked her BIOS (nothing there) and some of the control panel settings, but I can't figure out how to disable them. Is there a way to do this?

[Zambini]

Hotkeys like Control+W and Alt + F4?

Overriding Hotkeys

:D

But try it out before u say it works :P

[Gig-O-Ram]

Originally Posted by Zambini

Hotkeys like Control+W and Alt + F4?

Overriding Hotkeys

:D

But try it out before u say it works :P

Well, she would rather they all be disabled. She doesn't really use them, and she finds them a nuisance. We don't even know what key the cat hit that deleted the email, but she is interested in making sure that never happens again.

Thanks for the link :)

[gvblake22]

I think the solution here is to keep the cat off the keyboard! HAHA
Anyway, the cat probably hit Ctrl + A (for select all) and then the delete key. As for disabling the use of any keyboard shortcuts, I have no idea, sorry.

[Gig-O-Ram]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

I think the solution here is to keep the cat off the keyboard! HAHA
Anyway, the cat probably hit Ctrl + A (for select all) and then the delete key. As for disabling the use of any keyboard shortcuts, I have no idea, sorry.

Yeah, that was my thinking too. But the cat hangs out on the desk, and in this case, without warning just got up and walked over the keys. She will ususally tip-toe over the KB, or around it, but this time she really earned my nickname for her ("PooPoo Head").

The email was actually in AOL's "Mail waiting to be sent" folder (I know, I know...AOL...), and was selected and so was the first one in line for sending - or deletion. I tried everything to get it back, but it was just off into electronic oblivion.

On both my system and hers, the registry key that link mentions only reads the default value entry (value not set) and another entry that reads NoDriveTypeAutoRun 0x00000091 (145)