Hello, my friend has a laptop, and she keeps accidentally pressing a couple keys that makes her enter Airplane Mode, and that causes her to disconnect from a game she plays. I'm wondering if there is a way to disable the said hotkey?
How can you disable a hotkey or hotkey combination? (assuming that's what you mean- which keys are you referring to?)
You can do that with Autohotkey - free scripting language.
Consider Win key + h - this launches Dictate on the desktop.
Create a file called, say,
disable Winkey h.ahk
containing
#h::return
With Autohotkey installed, simply double click
disable Winkey h.ahk
Now Win key + h has no effect.
Example from the help file:
A key or key-combination can be disabled for the entire system by having it do nothing. The following example disables the right-side Win key:
RWin::return
The documentation provides a list of how to represent all the keys. (CTRL, Win, F1 etc)
If you want an exe file, with Autohotkey installed, simply right click your .ahk file, click Compile- and lo and behold an exe file is created.
Last edited by dalchina; 12 Sep 2019 at 05:14.
Flight mode & WiFi on/off keys are normally set up by the computer maker. I do not know of any shortcut key combination that is set up by Windows itself and there is no reference to one in Turn On or Off Airplane Mode - TenForumsTutorials
Computer makers normally put a symbol on the key to indicate that it turns on/off WiFi or Flight mode.
- If you do have such a symbol, as I expect, then check for guidance in the computer manual, the computer maker's support site & any user forums set up by the computer maker.
- You might also find that there is a keyboard utility in the Start menu within a section named after the computer maker and, if so, this might provide a means of altering this particular key.
Unless there is a method provided by the computer maker I do not think you will be successful.
Denis
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