Disable the Left Windows Key
posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 by bobby @ 9:23 pm
This is one of those "so I don't forget" posts but if others find it useful, then they are pretty cool indeed and should be commended for being so cool by someone soon.

I'm in Windows almost as much as I am in OS X on this here laptop w/ Parallels, and pretty much always in full screen mode. I set up a shortcut to switch to full screen (apple + f) because the default (ctrl+alt) that is configured thru Parallels only works while switching to full screen, but not back. And my apple+f works great, except when I switch from Windows back to OS X, the Windows start menu pops up - because the apple key is the Windows key when in Windows. So that's why I need to disable my left windows key for Windows.

Now, here's the solution. John Haller wrote up a registry key that will do this quickly and easily w/ no software to install. He's got one for the right key too, or both. Shegg 'em out here at his blog: http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/disable_windows_key/
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posted on Wednesday, October 04, 2006  by Adam Livesley @ 4:29 AM

How does visual studio run in Parallels? I've got a macbook pro, and develop / work on .net applications (so i need windows) at the moment im using bootcamp. But im in love with Mac OSX, and would love to use it for things like email, documents, msn messenger and the web. But then need to be able to use Windows for Visual Studio 2005! In parallels does intellisense work? How do things compile (fast enough) ? Ever used Mono?

Sorry for all the questions :P
posted on Wednesday, October 04, 2006  by bobby @ 9:29 AM

Hey Adam,

Yes, as a .NET developer using Parallels, I love it. It's obviously not quite as fast as Windows w/ Bootcamp, but it's damn impressive. Have a look at this post:

http://csharper.net/blog/bootcamp_vs_parallels_vol_2.aspx

Everything works as it normall would if you were using native Windows. Compiling is plenty fast enough (although I guess it depends on your project and what you consider "fast"), but I found it to be most definitely tolerable.

Being able to use Adium, Mail, iTunes, etc while programming in Visual Studio is pretty nice and, for me, a much better solution than constantly restarting to enter/leave bootcamp.

I've not used mono before but have been wanting to for awhile. I've done a little Objective C just to play around a little.
posted on Thursday, March 04, 2010  by kevin @ 7:00 AM

I read http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/disable_windows_key/ but I don't know how to edit registry,Google and found this http://www.autowinsoftware.com/products/disable-key, install and press the key you want to disable, that's all.Unfortunately,it's not free.


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