Disable A Certain Key In Your Keyboard
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
The 'Alternate' (Alt) key of my friend's notebook keyboard got stuck. So, when he presses A, the computer accepts it as Alt + A. The immediate solution that I can think, is to disable the key.
I find that it's not hard to disable a key. Here's how to do it:
- Download MapKeyboard from download.com (27KB only)
- Uncompress it, then open the MapKeyboard.exe (not installation is required)
- A virtual key board will show up.
- Click on the key that you want to disable. For my case, I click on RAlt to disable right Alt key.
- Then at "Remap selected key to:", select "Disabled".
- Finally, click "Save layout" and reboot the PC
If you failed to start the program, you will need to install Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0.
I think this can be useful, especially for some gamers who would like to disable the Windows key for you-know-what reason.
Besides disabling a certain key, the program can map keys as well.
Hope you find it useful too.
