Re: How to disable "POWER" keyboard button by nibbleguru on November 09th, 2003 10:31:59 AM
Special WindowsR 98 Keys – Power, Wake and Sleep
The three keys in the upper right-hand area of the Windows keyboard are there for use with WindowsR 98 and above. You should consult your Windows manual or help screen for more detailed information on using these keys.
If you are not using the POWER key, you might want to disable it, especially on Multimedia/Internet keyboards. This can be done one of two ways:
1.At the BIOS level, disabling the ACPI functions will cause all three functions to be disabled.
2.Or go to the Control Panel, Settings, Power Manager, Advanced, Change Power Setting to “suspend”.
Similiar to the other two keys |
Re: How to disable by Anonymous Ghost on December 23rd, 2003 04:21:19 AM
Alternative, open the keyboard and slip and fix a piece of insulator (paper as example) between the conductive sheets under the buttons you want to disable |
Re: How to disable by pradeep_mig29 on January 01st, 2004 05:54:49 AM
remove kb driver and install the default driver(101/104 microsft natural kebboard) this occur when you install windows.It take this particular driver as default driver.Now the k/b will work as a 104 k/b.The other alternative is to disable power management support in the BIOS. |
Re: How to disable by Anonymous Ghost on February 06th, 2004 04:27:01 AM
super idea!!!!
I'VE SAERCH ALL WEB? BUT FIND UNSWER ONLY NERE!
THANX! |
Re: How to disable by vitalyb on July 15th, 2004 12:33:07 PM
I found a way to REASSIGN these 3 keys to some more useful feature. You'll need two programs for that:
1) I hate this key
2) Girder
The first one costs money, the second is for free.
I won't go to lengths to explain how you use both programs, you'll have to read a bit, but it is not hard at all.
I Hate This Key (only Deluxe version!) disables the functionality of Power Off/Sleep/Wake up.
Girder can be used to do other stuff on these keys press. For example, I use them to control the volume.
Good luck and enjoy :). |
Re: How to disable by Anonymous Ghost on December 03rd, 2004 07:48:44 AM
I know this been awhile, but I checked the Girder site and can't find any freeware. It has a price tag on it! So, any freeware solution left? |
Re: How to disable "POWER" keyboard button by Anonymous Ghost on December 10th, 2004 10:55:58 PM
I came across with this issue too when I bought a new keyboard with a stupid design. It places those 3 keys right between arrow keys and home / insert / delete keys. I have accidentally switched off my PC several times in one night.
After googling so long, I finally solved this issue - CREATING my own keyboard filter driver to wrap around the original keyboard driver.
Here is the Microsoft link that talks about how to implement the driver.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q302092#kb1
It requires DDK and some programming experience. It took me about 1-2 hours to make it although most work is just copy and paste. If you don't wanna bother it, email me at fulluey@hotmail.com. I can send it to you to distribute. I don't have public web space to hold them.
Another thing I wanna mention is the keyboard scancode mapping doesn't work for such power keys. I have tried many times. It can re-map the scan code, but the ACPI process happens way lower at the driver level, which makes it impossible to do from mapping.
Check out the M$ link on scancode mapping at:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/w2kscan-map.mspx |
Re: How to disable by Anonymous Ghost on January 01st, 2005 04:30:28 AM
Hi all !
At this link you can download the filter driver mentioned above.
http://eugeb.narod.ru/Keyboards.zip |
Re: How to disable by Anonymous Ghost on January 14th, 2005 05:09:52 AM
I simply pulled that key out - problem solved |
Disable or reassign any key by Anonymous Ghost on August 01st, 2005 05:53:08 AM
ONLY if your confident with binary and the registry.
Edit the scancodes!
The first link provides an easy way to effectively force the F lock to be disabled by default (rather than enabled on start up)
http://www.mvps.org/jtsang/flock.html
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/w2kscan-map.mspx |
Re: How to disable by Anonymous Ghost on August 13th, 2005 02:06:26 AM
Hi all,
I recently bought a tv tuner card/remote control but it doesn't have a sleep button!
I want to reprogram one of the buttons to be a windows sleep button. I've tried remapping with no luck, as anonymous ghost discussed above. Anyone got any other ideas? Will writing a filter driver work? |
Re: How to disable by Anonymous Ghost on February 03rd, 2007 03:35:40 AM
I just changed the keyboard and took one without those keys. |
