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I'm trying for a week to disable the Alt+Esc shortcut in Windows 8, but I can't use any running tool like AutoHotKey.

Already searched in Regedit, Gpedit, Control Panel, and a lot of googling. However, I just found tutorials about disabling Win+X shortcuts or changing scancodes.

So, someone know how to disable only the Alt+Esc hotkey?

Mathias Lykkegaard Lorenzen
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  • Possible duplicate: http://superuser.com/questions/129191/is-there-any-way-to-disable-certain-keyboard-shortcuts-in-windows-7 – Mathias Lykkegaard Lorenzen Jul 25 '14 at 14:40
  • Does this answer help? http://superuser.com/a/523832/62271 – Mathias Lykkegaard Lorenzen Jul 25 '14 at 14:40
  • Unfortunately no, SharpKeys only change one scancode for another, I need to set a key combination (Alt+Esc) to 'null' – Victor Jul 25 '14 at 14:43
  • Windows doesn't provide a built-in way to turn off arbitrary hotkeys, and you can't use third-party tools. That pretty much rules out any possible solutions, short of manually patching the executable bits that handles Alt+Esc. Why do you need to disable it? – and31415 Jul 25 '14 at 17:31
  • I can use third-party tools, but only if they write to a registry or something and can be closed/uninstalled from Windows. In a specific game I use Alt > Click > Esc > Alt > ... Doing this fast cause Alt+Esc and the game minimize, also any KeyBinding-OnTheFly is recognized as a cheat and shutdown the game-client. – Victor Jul 25 '14 at 17:41

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If those suggestions don't work you could try finding the process that allows Alt-Tab to work (it's not explorer.exe) and kill that process (if safe) while your lock is in place.

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Well, the only partial solution which I can achieve, its to lock the application into full screen mode, and close all other applications which have a window context to be switched, in this way the shortcut don't get triggered.

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