Disable shutdown button on PS2 keyboard

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No disk or CD came with the keyboard. Windows XP installed its own driver
automatically.


"Galen" <galennews@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In news:%23NSawoKwFHA.2228@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
> SeaMaid <seamaid24-graphics@yahoo.com> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
>> My PS2 keyboard has three buttons that I never use: shutdown,
>> standby/sleep, wake.
>>
>> I keep accidentally hitting the shutdown button, my PC starts
>> shutting down, and I do not get to save my work. Is there a way to
>> disable these keyboard buttons, short of putting tape over them?
>> Windows XP Pro SP2 with 4 users.
>
> Did your keyboard come with a CD that you used and installed the software
> to configure those buttons? Chances are that if it did that you will also
> be able to remove the functions or change them to something you might
> actually find valuable. My shutdown button is, for example, actually set
> to hibernate.
>
> Galen
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>
> "You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
> trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
> come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."
>
> Sherlock Holmes
>

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Thanks, but I do not understand. This is too technical for me. I will just
cover the 3 keys with tape.


"Jason Tsang" <jason-onlineDEL@ETEmvps.org> wrote in message
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> You can use the Scan code snapper to disable this key. See details here
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devi [...] n-map.mspx
>
> I have the scancode for the sleep/power key on my site at
> http://mvps.org/jtsang/flock.html
>
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> "SeaMaid" <seamaid24-graphics@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%23NSawoKwFHA.2228@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> My PS2 keyboard has three buttons that I never use: shutdown,
>> standby/sleep, wake.
>>
>> I keep accidentally hitting the shutdown button, my PC starts shutting
>> down, and I do not get to save my work. Is there a way to disable these
>> keyboard buttons, short of putting tape over them? Windows XP Pro SP2
>> with 4 users.
>>
>
>