Hi, I would like to disable this shortcut if possible, windows+ctrl+D. It opens a new desktop sometimes when I'm playing games and is really annoying.
I have already disabled all Win+ shortcuts through regedit but this is still happening, if I can't disable that shortcut, is there any way to completely remove Task view? I never use it anyway.
To re-enable and show or unhide the Task View button, just reselect the same “Show Task View button” option.
Hide or Show Task View Button on Taskbar in Windows 10 Windows 10 Customization Tutorials
Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Find a DWORD value named ShowTaskViewButton. By default, the value data is “1” for showing the Task View button on the Taskbar. Change it to 0 to hide it from Taskbar.
Hi Daikin990, unfortunately that just disables the task view button, the key combo and task view still work after doing this, thanks though.
Don't wanna sound like a disappointment, but I've been told that all the built-in Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts are nonadjustable. Neither can they be disabled.
I've spent hours looking online to disable a Windows 10 keyboard shortcut (because I wanted to use that shortcut for a different program). I was unable to find any effective method, so I gave up. Instead I thought up of a different keyboard shortcut for my program (that wasn't being used by Windows 10) and stuck with that instead.
If its interfering with a specific game keybinding, why not consider changing the key combination.
The same thing is happening to me too! It literally only happens to me in Overwatch, and it only happens every few days, maybe once a week.
I finally was able to capture it happening to me tonight, here's the video: Overwatch Screen Swap Glitch on Windows 10, Please Help! - YouTube
If I figure out how to disable this key combo, I'll make sure to come back here and tell you.
Edit: Apparently the only thing you can do is disable the Windows Key all together, which I don't like. When a game won't let me Alt+Tab, the Windows Key usually works for me, but now that i have to disable it, I can't use it. Here's how to disable it: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...rd-windows-key
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Another option, is to check if your keyboard will let the Windows key be locked by pressing Fn+F12.
AutoHotkey can capture input before it is passed on to Windows.
AutoHotkey
It's an incredibly useful scripting utility whis has been making my life so much easier ever since I first downloaded it.
Anyway, I ran into this issue today, too.
I wanted to input the key combo CTRL+WIN+D into a hotkey field.
I wrote a general shortcut for AHK:
Code:^#D:: keywait, ctrl ControlGetFocus,focused,A controlSend,%focused%,#^D,A returnkeywait, Ctrlbasically waits until the Ctrl key is released - to avoid colliding inputs.
We then get the currently focused control of the currently active window ("A") withControlGetFocus.
We then send the original key combo CTRL+WIN+D to the focused control in the active window withControlSend.
This doesn't trigger the Windows Desktop function and SHOULD send the keys to where they're supposed to go, unless you're using them as a global hotkey.
It should be possible to adapt this approach for specific cases of that, too.
And if you simply want to disable it:
^#D::
in a text file, say disable.txt - rename that to disable.ahk and with Autohotkey installed, double click it.
Want an exe file? Rt click disable.ahk, rt click it, click Compile.
There's apparently no way to remove or completely disable Task view.
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