Alloysoft Blog » Mac http://www.alloysoft.com/blog Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:50:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Disable the Windows and Menu Keys in a VM http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2009/03/disable-windows-and-menu-keys-in-a-vm/ http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/2009/03/disable-windows-and-menu-keys-in-a-vm/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:53:09 +0000 Matt Stevens http://www.alloysoft.com/blog/?p=130 If you use Windows in VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop on your Mac you may have run into a small but annoying issue – pressing the left or right ⌘ key brings up the start menu or right-click menu even if the key is unbound in the virtual machine application.

To work around this issue I made a modification to John Haller’s excellent registry tweak for disabling the Windows key to create a single file that disables both the Windows and context menu keys in one go:

Registry Patch: Disable Windows and Menu Keys

One caveat: This file does make a change to the Windows registry, so use at your own risk. You can open the file in a text editor to see exactly what it modifies.

To install, download the .reg file into the guest OS, double-click it, approve the prompts, then restart Windows. The keys should now be ignored by Windows and you can ⌘-Tab or ⌘-Function Key without any more annoying menus.

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