Disabling Alt+Tab

[JumpManPro]

When I'm playing games my Player1 controls sometimes minimizes my screen, which is quite frustrating. My guess is it is a hotkey, like Alt+Tab. Does anybody know a program to disable these?

[Tempest]

When I'm playing games my Player1 controls sometimes minimizes my screen, which is quite frustrating. My guess is it is a hotkey, like Alt+Tab. Does anybody know a program to disable these?

I don't know about disabling, but you could change your player 1 mappings to something else. Some people will only use letters for their controls, no - shift, ctrl, tab, etc.

[bkenobi]

I think this has been answered in the FAQ here or at BYOAC. But, yes, you are running into hotkeys triggering and doing undesirable stuff. I personally remap my keys so I don't use ctl, alt, win, tab, shift, space, enter. However, if you really want to keep things as they are on that front, I believe you TWEAKUI can turn these off. I know there was a topic about this a while back, so perhaps given a more rigorous search you can find it. If you do, please post a link in this thread. That way we can get it added to the FAQ for future reference.

[JumpManPro]

Okay, I will search for that and see what I can find. Unfortunately, I can not program what my buttons are. I'm using the X-Arcade XXL tankstick, which uses left alt+left ctrl, somehow pushing them the right way or many times is minimizing my screen. I'll follow up with whatever solution is found. Thanks guys!

[Brian Hoffman]

http://www.xgaming.com/service/programming.shtml

[JumpManPro]

http://www.xgaming.com/service/programming.shtml

Thanks for the link! I actually contacted X-Arcade a couple of days ago, and you can program their keys on everything EXCEPT the XXL Tankstick.

[Tempest]

Thanks for the link! I actually contacted X-Arcade a couple of days ago, and you can program their keys on everything EXCEPT the XXL Tankstick.

Wouldn't remapping with Xpadder stop this as well?

[JumpManPro]

Wouldn't remapping with Xpadder stop this as well?

I'm not familiar with the Xpadder, what is that??

[Tempest]

I'm not familiar with the Xpadder, what is that??

I haven't used it, but someday I will...Having said that:

www.xpadder.com

I think it's as simple as:

a::s

to remap the "a" key to "s"

Not to be short, but I really don't know what I'm talking about, and there are tons of posts regarding this.

If you have problems, just ask, and someone smarter will jump in.

Brian Hoffman, and Bkenobi will definately be able to help, and they may even jump in to say that this won't work at all!

[bkenobi]

Thanks for the link! I actually contacted X-Arcade a couple of days ago, and you can program their keys on everything EXCEPT the XXL Tankstick.

That sounds like you have MS sticky keys enabled. It's a "feature" that's supposed to help if you hold down the key for a very long time. I don't like it and always try to disable it. It's under accessibility options in Windows if you want to take a look.

[Brian Hoffman]

Save this file as Enable Alt-tab.reg

CODE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

"CoolSwitch"="1"

Save this one as Disable Atl-tab.reg

CODE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

"CoolSwitch"="0"

[Tempest]

Save this file as Enable Alt-tab.reg

CODE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

"CoolSwitch"="1"

Save this one as Disable Atl-tab.reg

CODE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

"CoolSwitch"="0"

Ok. Then what? Launch before and after?

[headkaze]

Ok. Then what? Launch before and after?

Well you could just double click the one to turn it off and leave it at that. Then turn it back on later if you ever need it. Double clicking a reg file is enough to place it into the registry (it will ask you to confirm it first though).

If you want to use LaunchBefore and LaunchAfter then it would look something like this

LaunchBefore=reg import "Disable Alt-tab.reg"
LaunchAfter=reg import "Enable Alt-tab.reg"