How do i disable the windows key?

[Schadenfroh]

Topic says it all, currently i have them pried off. My IBM Model M died

 

[shortylickens]

I really dont think you can disable it if you are using windows.

I like the tought of popping it off though.
Why bother if your laptop is dead?

 

[KoolDrew]

Try searching google? I know there is a registry key.

 

[HDTVMan]

SCREWDRIVER.

Dont laugh I did it.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I really dont think you can disable it if you are using windows.

I like the tought of popping it off though.
Why bother if your laptop is dead?

IBM model M is a type of keyboard, really old clicky key. Anyone know of anyone that still service these things?

 

[Ken90630]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I really dont think you can disable it if you are using windows.

I like the tought of popping it off though.
Why bother if your laptop is dead?

IBM model M is a type of keyboard, really old clicky key. Anyone know of anyone that still service these things?

I don't, but there's a user here named Googer that has done a lot of posts about keyboards in the past and seems to know a lot about them (particularly the older, "clicky" vintage keyboards like your nice IBM). Send him/her a PM and maybe he/she can help you out.

Tom (mechBgon) might have some ideas too, as I seem to remember he has one of those nice old IBM keyboards too. Wish I did.

Ken

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Ken90630

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I really dont think you can disable it if you are using windows.

I like the tought of popping it off though.
Why bother if your laptop is dead?

IBM model M is a type of keyboard, really old clicky key. Anyone know of anyone that still service these things?

I don't, but there's a user here named Googer that has done a lot of posts about keyboards in the past and seems to know a lot about them (particularly the older, "clicky" vintage keyboards like your nice IBM). Send him/her a PM and maybe he/she can help you out.

Tom (mechBgon) might have some ideas too, as I seem to remember he has one of those nice old IBM keyboards too. Wish I did.

Ken

I have two of them, one at work and one at home Schadenfroh, I will visit a couple local thrift stores and see if I can collar another one for $1.99 for ya

edit: ohmigosh, this means... this means... :shocked: IBM M-SERIES ARE NOT INDESTRUCTIBLE?!?!?!

 

[Ken90630]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: Ken90630

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I really dont think you can disable it if you are using windows.

I like the tought of popping it off though.
Why bother if your laptop is dead?

IBM model M is a type of keyboard, really old clicky key. Anyone know of anyone that still service these things?

I don't, but there's a user here named Googer that has done a lot of posts about keyboards in the past and seems to know a lot about them (particularly the older, "clicky" vintage keyboards like your nice IBM). Send him/her a PM and maybe he/she can help you out.

Tom (mechBgon) might have some ideas too, as I seem to remember he has one of those nice old IBM keyboards too. Wish I did.

Ken

I have two of them, one at work and one at home Schadenfroh, I will visit a couple local thrift stores and see if I can collar another one for $1.99 for ya

edit: ohmigosh, this means... this means... :shocked: IBM M-SERIES ARE NOT INDESTRUCTIBLE?!?!?!

For that price (or similar), feel free to grab one for me too while you're at it.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: Ken90630

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I really dont think you can disable it if you are using windows.

I like the tought of popping it off though.
Why bother if your laptop is dead?

IBM model M is a type of keyboard, really old clicky key. Anyone know of anyone that still service these things?

I don't, but there's a user here named Googer that has done a lot of posts about keyboards in the past and seems to know a lot about them (particularly the older, "clicky" vintage keyboards like your nice IBM). Send him/her a PM and maybe he/she can help you out.

Tom (mechBgon) might have some ideas too, as I seem to remember he has one of those nice old IBM keyboards too. Wish I did.

Ken

I have two of them, one at work and one at home Schadenfroh, I will visit a couple local thrift stores and see if I can collar another one for $1.99 for ya

edit: ohmigosh, this means... this means... :shocked: IBM M-SERIES ARE NOT INDESTRUCTIBLE?!?!?!

thanks for the offer man, but i am going to ninja one from the storage room, have a ton of them in storage at my community college and maybe the boss man will let me take one, seeing how they are just rotting away.

 

[mechBgon]

Hehe, well I'll try to wrastle up one for you then, Ken I really don't do well with any of the "modern" ones compared to these.

 

[mechBgon]

Here's a thread with more possible answers too: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1609385&enterthread=y

 

[Schadenfroh]

Thanks as usual mech and crew

 

[Ken90630]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Hehe, well I'll try to wrastle up one for you then, Ken I really don't do well with any of the "modern" ones compared to these.

Thanks, but you don't need to go to the trouble just for me. I just thought if you were gonna be there anyway to get one for Schadenfroh, and they had more than one, you could grab one for me too. But don't make a special shopping trip just for me. I'm not doing a lot of computing these days anyway, so it's not a pressing need.

Now that we're talking about this though, I think I'll go back & review some of Googer's old posts on this subject. I seem to remember him/her posting some nice links to some newer keyboards that are being built in the style of the older and more tactile-feeling (or "clicky") keyboards. I recall them being a bit pricey, but I think I'll check 'em out just for the heck of it.

Later, Gators.