Windows 10: How to disable hotkeys in Windows Home edition?

Vera__A · Feb 11, 2023

Hotkeys are severely impeding gaming especially ctrl+alt+del opening task manager and the windows key in general. I cannot use Group Policy Editor. It does not exist on home editions of windows. There is also no "Explorer" folder under "Policies" in the registry so editing the registry is also not an option. How do I disable hotkeys in HOME editions of windows?

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Hydrate · Feb 11, 2023

Disabling a hotkey in Windows Explorer

Thank you all for your replies.

For clarity, I should have perhaps elaborated a little more on what I am trying to achieve.

I use AutoHotkey to allow all sorts of custom key combos and actions to be run. One of the hotkeys that I have created is designed to deselect any selected files in Explorer (sort of the opposite of Ctrl + A). I assigned Ctrl + D (for de-select) to this action because it's the same hotkey that's used to deselect a selection in Photoshop, and I've been using that for so long that it's really engrained in me, so it just made sense for me to go with the same hotkey for deselecting in Explorer.

I've been happily using this for a couple of years, and all is well ...... provided that Autohotkey is running! However, if AutoHotkey is not running then Ctrl+D changes back to delete.

I don't clutter my system tray with icons for AutoHotkey (because once the script is edited, it just does it's thing and doesn't need to be interacted with via GUI) so it's not immediately apparent if it is not loaded. Also, whenever I deliberately unload the script (to work on new scripts) or if I'm starting Windows with HKCU & HKLM run commands temporarily disabled for testing, then it's easy to forget that my frequently used hotkey has suddenly changed function and it will now delete files instead of just unselecting them.

So I was hoping to find solution that does not rely on startup shortcuts or 'run' registry keys; something that essentially can't be bypassed easily, but at the same time which will not completely disable that key combo (because I still need to use it in Photoshop and other apps).

So when I said "no 3rd party" it wasn't about me wanting to set the restriction directly just for the hell of it, what I meant was I didn't want to have to run yet another piece of software every time because that would just duplicate the function of AutoHotkey, and it would be prone to the same issue of silently reverting the hotkey to default if it didn't run for some reason.

The option that Bro67 mentioned is a 3rd party software, but it just acts as a font end to the Registry (as far as I can tell) so this might do the trick, unless it permanently maps the hotkey for all applications.
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Only one way to do this is to try it out for yourself or read the feature list of the 3rd paty software Bro suggested.

NogtTL · Feb 11, 2023

Shortcuts/hotkeys for text suggestion

I didn't found it official shortcut list, so I ask here.

Are there are any shortcuts/hotkeys to

loop though text suggestions

insert the text suggestion

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