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I hate the Windows Logo key. It never fails that I’m inside a game or some other “full screen” application and I whack it by accident when I mean to hit the Alt or the Control key. Solutions exist, but most of them are commercial.

I found a lovely little program called SharpKeys. Although it requires the .NET 2.0 framework (yuck) it’s really a nice piece of software. It will take any key and allow you to remap it as any other key. So in my case, I re-mapped both Windows Logo keys to the shift key. It writes the changes to a registry key - making it permanent so the software doesn’t have to stay resident. To remove the changes, you run the software again and it modifies the key.

Very very nice.

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