Enable or Disable hotkeys in windows 10

If you are wondering how to enable or disable hotkeys in windows 10 then you can disable hotkeys if you are facing issues with hotkeys with your keyboard automatically doing something unexpected. So, lets see in detail how to disable hotkey and also enable hotkeys.

Disable hotkeys in windows 10:

Step 1: In windows search bar type in RUN and open run window

Step 2: Now, in run box type in gpedit.msc and click ok.

Step 3: In group editor policy settings on the left side windows navigate to user configuration

Step 4: Administrative templates -> Windows Components -> File explorer.

Step 5: Click on file explorer and select standard tab on the bottom of group editor policy settings.

Step 6: Now find, turn off windows hot keys option and double click on it.

Select Enable to enable hotkeys:

Step 7: Now, select the option Enable and click on apply and ok.

Select Disable to disable hotkeys:

That’s it, once you turn off or disable hotkeys in windows 10, go ahead and restart your computer and hotkeys win+ will be disable on your windows 10 computer.

Disable hotkeys using Regedit:

Step 1: Type regedit on in the run box and press ok.

Step 2: On the left side menu -> Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Step 3: Click on Explorer and on the right side Right click on it and create a new DWORD 32 bit value and name it as DisableKey and hit enter.

Step 4: Double click on the newly created key and double click on it and change the value data from 1 to 0 and press ok and restart your computer to makes these changes apply on your computer.

Completely disable windows keys:

Step 1: In windows search bar type in Run and open run windows

Step 2: Type in regedit in the run box and hit enter.

Step 3: Now navigate to -> HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Current\ControlSet\Control\KeyboardLayout.

Step 4: Click on KeyboardLayout option ->Right click on empty space and create a new BINARY Value and name it as you want.

Step 5: Once new key is created go ahead and double click on it and enter the binary value as below: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

03 00 00 00 00 00 5B E0

00 00 5C E0 00 00 00 00

Step 6: Click ok and apply settings and restart your computer.

That’s it, this is how you disable window keys completely by creating a new binary value in keyboardLayout in registry editor and disable keys completely and disable hotkeys