I'll kiss you on the mouth... Disabling ctrl-esc

[Awful]

So okay, I need to disable the ctrl + esc shortcut in windows. I can't figure out to use autohotkey to do it like many suggest. Is their a registry edit or something simple I can do this with? Really a bummer.

[kmiller8]

Thank you for showing me what ctrl-esc does. good luck on your quest to get rid of it

[tipo33]

Thank you for showing me what ctrl-esc does. good luck on your quest to get rid of it

For future reference what does it do?   I don't have any Windows computers.

[tp4tissue]

what? why bother... how do you manage to hit both those keys.

[kmiller8]

For future reference what does it do?   I don't have any Windows computers.

It presses the windows key, so like for boards that are winkeyless (i'm assuming)

[Awful]

I keybind to tilde in games, but now that I have a Pure I can't, so I'm binding to that escape key as if it were tilde. Hope that makes sense. I can't use the combo of "Ctrl + Esc" as I would have used "Ctrl + Tilde" in the past.

[tp4tissue]

I keybind to tilde in games, but now that I have a Pure I can't, so I'm binding to that escape key as if it were tilde. Hope that makes sense. I can't use the combo of "Ctrl + Esc" as I would have used "Ctrl + Tilde" in the past.

Ergo dox... salvation is at hand.. Fully programmable, you can put esc key anywhere...

Staggered qwerty layouts are so bad for your hand, wrist and shoulders...   I would know, i've used them all my life.

Suffer no more.

[actionbastard]

I keybind to tilde in games, but now that I have a Pure I can't, so I'm binding to that escape key as if it were tilde. Hope that makes sense. I can't use the combo of "Ctrl + Esc" as I would have used "Ctrl + Tilde" in the past.

Ergo dox... salvation is at hand.. Fully programmable, you can put esc key anywhere...

Staggered qwerty layouts are so bad for your hand, wrist and shoulders...   I would know, i've used them all my life.

Suffer no more.

STOP IT!!! I don't have $200 to spend right now  ;(..

[tp4tissue]

I keybind to tilde in games, but now that I have a Pure I can't, so I'm binding to that escape key as if it were tilde. Hope that makes sense. I can't use the combo of "Ctrl + Esc" as I would have used "Ctrl + Tilde" in the past.

Ergo dox... salvation is at hand.. Fully programmable, you can put esc key anywhere...

Staggered qwerty layouts are so bad for your hand, wrist and shoulders...   I would know, i've used them all my life.

Suffer no more.

STOP IT!!! I don't have $200 to spend right now  ;(..

Love will find a way...

[fohat.digs]

I have never understood the hatred some people have for staggered keys.

I find them very helpful and hate it when I have to use a keyboard where there are vertical columns as well as horizontal rows.

PS - please, no flames or trolls. rational explanations would be nice.

[esoomenona]

I learned about keytweak last night. It was fast and easy. Maybe give it a try, remapping Escape for tilde?

[RabRhee]

Keytweak would work but it would probably mean you don't have an esc key at all, which is good if you can truly do without.

An alternative would be the board-popular AutoHotKey, ( www.autohotkey.com ) which would let you set up a script to block the ctrl-esc.

^Escape::

[esoomenona]

I had to resort to keytweak because AHK was being real finicky with me and swapping a couple keys. I tried jumping through many hoops, but couldn't get it. But AHK is good for things like this situation, where it can be context aware, such as you just mentioned.

[RabRhee]

I had to resort to keytweak because AHK was being real finicky with me and swapping a couple keys. I tried jumping through many hoops, but couldn't get it. But AHK is good for things like this situation, where it can be context aware, such as you just mentioned.

Yes, remapping is a much better option I think, partly because I think it is done on system load, and then set in stone. Anything that is sat in between your keyboard and the application like AHK always has the potential to cause other problems, or delays. It would be possible to map some other key to Esc if it was needed.

[fohat.digs]

I always liked Key Tweak better than Auto Hot Key, but with Soarer's Converter it is much better to program all your changes directly into the Teensy.

[Grim Fandango]

I have also used keytweak in the past and it worked well enough.

[Awful]

Would keytweak allot me to tell the keyboard that the esc is tilde? I can do without an escape. I'm using ahk right now, and it's working but not exactly how I would prefer it.

[Awful]

Keytweak worked perfectly, thanks guys!

[noisyturtle]

Keytweak worked perfectly, thanks guys!

Now kiss.

[Leslieann]

In Autohotkey this turns left ctrl into a left shift key:
LCtrl::LShift

Personally, I use:
Capslock::LShift   (turns capslock into shift)
Insert::Delete    (turns insert into delete)

I also run this, which turns the Start key into CTRL during Left 4 Dead 2:
#IfWinActive Left 4 Dead 2
LWin::LCtrl

I also use it to correct common misspellings like:
::teh::the
::woudl::would


I think I have most of the key names if you need it.

[ImperfectLink]

For future reference what does it do?   I don't have any Windows computers.

It presses the windows key, so like for boards that are winkeyless (i'm assuming)

It rubs the lotion on it's skin...