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Disable keyboard shortcut for Windows Photo Viewer

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:46 pm
by thewolfe
I use Hotkeycontrol for shortcuts to files/folders & locations.

All of a sudden one of my shortcuts is opening Windows Photo Viewer.

Is there a way to disable the Windows shortcut keys?

Re: Disable keyboard shortcut for Windows Photo Viewer

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:16 pm
by AceCombat
you mean disable the Windows key?


google "Disable Windows Key" and you will find it easily. its a registry entry so, you need to know how to use the registry editor, or in most cases some websites have it set as a batch job and you can just download and run the editor batch command and it will do it for you.


needless to say DO NOT EDIT ANYTHING ELSE or you can and most likely screw up your windows installation or other programs

Re: Disable keyboard shortcut for Windows Photo Viewer

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:21 pm
by fliptw
did you know that you can give shortcuts keyboard shortcuts?

Re: Disable keyboard shortcut for Windows Photo Viewer

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:49 pm
by thewolfe
Sorry, didn't splain well. I use a shortcut program and use ctrl alt P to open a program.. Now when I use that keyboard shortcut. The win Photo viewer comes up.

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Re: Disable keyboard shortcut for Windows Photo Viewer

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:25 pm
by fliptw
its probably your hotkey program.

to wit:make a shortcut for a folder, then bring up its properties, you can assign a shortcut key that way.

Re: Disable keyboard shortcut for Windows Photo Viewer

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:45 pm
by thewolfe
Sounds good, thanks.

Re: Disable keyboard shortcut for Windows Photo Viewer

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:37 pm
by AceCombat
fliptw wrote:did you know that you can give shortcuts keyboard shortcuts?
didnt know that.....

Re: Disable keyboard shortcut for Windows Photo Viewer

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:18 am
by TechPro
AceCombat wrote:
fliptw wrote:did you know that you can give shortcuts keyboard shortcuts?
didnt know that.....
Right-click a shortcut and open it's properties. One of the option fields is for assigning a keyboard shortcut. Note: this ONLY works for shortcuts under your Programs menu. All others are ignored.

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Re: Disable keyboard shortcut for Windows Photo Viewer

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:08 pm
by AceCombat
learned something for once :mrgreen: