Disable Ctrl-Esc

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Jack

Hi,
I need the ctrl-esc for another application in DOS... So how to disable
ctrl-esc intrinsic function of opening the start menu?
Thanks
Jack
 
[Jack] wrote-:
> Hi,
> I need the ctrl-esc for another application in DOS... So how to disable
> ctrl-esc intrinsic function of opening the start menu?
> Thanks

Create a shortcut to the DOS program then right click the shortcut and go to Misc tab
and uncheck the "Ctrl+Esc" shortcut"


Good Luck, Ayush.
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> [Jack] wrote-:
>> Hi,
>> I need the ctrl-esc for another application in DOS... So how to disable
>> ctrl-esc intrinsic function of opening the start menu?
>> Thanks
>
> Create a shortcut to the DOS program then right click the shortcut and go
> to Misc tab and uncheck the "Ctrl+Esc" shortcut"
Dear Ayush,
Does the same apply to DOSBox, I run a language program inside DOSBox..
Sorry didn't mention this...
Thnaks
Jack



>
>
> Good Luck, Ayush.
> --
> XP-Tips [Speed up menu display] :
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/menu.mspx
 
"Jack" wrote in message news:uLrEzx6yHHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
> "Ayush" wrote ...
>>
>> [Jack] wrote-:
>>>
>>> I need the ctrl-esc for another application in DOS... So how to
>>> disable ctrl-esc intrinsic function of opening the start menu?
>>> Thanks
>>
>> Create a shortcut to the DOS program then right click the shortcut
>> and go to Misc tab and uncheck the "Ctrl+Esc" shortcut"
>
> Does the same apply to DOSBox, I run a language program inside
> DOSBox..
> Sorry didn't mention this...

The DOS shell *is* the program that is running, and cmd.exe doesn't have
a problem with Ctrl+Esc. So do as Ayahs said and create a shortcut to
your DOS program(s). Then you get the option to disable Ctrl+Esc.

If by DOSBox you mean that you are running the program called DOSBox
(http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/), they have their own forum. As Ayush
mentioned, create a shortcut to DOSbox and then check if the option for
the shortcut lets you disable Ctrl+Esc (it might not if DOSBox is seen
as a Windows-compliant program).

Have you yet created a shortcut to your unnamed "language program" to
see if it will run under a compatibility mode (another option for the
shortcut)?
 
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:17:33 +0800, "Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I need the ctrl-esc for another application in DOS... So how to disable
>ctrl-esc intrinsic function of opening the start menu?

In Win9x, you'd go Properties, and check the "captured" keys in one of
the tabs. The setting was held in the Win9x .PIF, which is spawned if
you're working on the Properties of the executable, else work on the
..PIF shortcuts you already use to run it.

I see that XP does not spawn this as part of the (different)
Properties for the .PIF, but I also know that "old" .PIF from Win9x do
work in XP and seem to retain thier older Properties.

So, try to generate, set up and harvest an applicable .PIF from a
Win9x installation, and bring it into your XP.

Does anyone have any documentation on the way .PIF were changed
between Win9x and XP platforms?



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To one who only has a hammer,
everything looks like a nail
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Make a shortcut the COMMAND.COM and you will see them. A shortcut to
CMD.EXE won't have them.

cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:17:33 +0800, "Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>I need the ctrl-esc for another application in DOS... So how to disable
>>ctrl-esc intrinsic function of opening the start menu?
>
>
> In Win9x, you'd go Properties, and check the "captured" keys in one of
> the tabs. The setting was held in the Win9x .PIF, which is spawned if
> you're working on the Properties of the executable, else work on the
> .PIF shortcuts you already use to run it.
>
> I see that XP does not spawn this as part of the (different)
> Properties for the .PIF, but I also know that "old" .PIF from Win9x do
> work in XP and seem to retain thier older Properties.
>
> So, try to generate, set up and harvest an applicable .PIF from a
> Win9x installation, and bring it into your XP.
>
> Does anyone have any documentation on the way .PIF were changed
> between Win9x and XP platforms?
>
>
>
>
>>--------------- ----- ---- --- -- - - -
>
> To one who only has a hammer,
> everything looks like a nail
>
>>--------------- ----- ---- --- -- - - -
 
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