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WinKey Killer - Version 1.2
Freeware
Copyright (c) 1999 Brad Jackson
E-Mail: bjackson@plutonium.net
Web site: http://home.plutonium.net/~bjackson
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Purpose:
To disable the Windows key and context menu key on newer 104-key Windows 95 keyboards.  Optionally disable all system keys for security purposes.

Why you need it:
If you've ever been in a full screen DOS program or DirectX game in Windows 95 and accidentally hit the Windows key down by the spacebar, you know how annoying it is to unexpectedly get jumped back to the Windows taskbar to watch the Start menu pop up.  Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, didn't give users a way to disable these keys.  Now you have an easy way to fix this "feature" of Windows.  I have WinKey Killer running on my machine all the time since I rarely use the keys.  I am totally "rodent dependent" and use the mouse to open the Start menu or a popup menu.

Installing and running WinKey Killer:
Just copy WKeyKill.exe, WKeyKill.dll, and WKeyKill.ini into a directory.  (Sorry, I didn't have a choice about a yucky separate DLL file.  That's what Windows needs for it to work properly.)  Run the program manually or create a shortcut to the program in your Startup group if you want the program to run automatically upon starting Windows.  To shut down the program, run it a second time and it will close itself.  You can also press Ctrl+Alt+Del and press End Task and it will close itself.  This program is free for use at work or home.

Configuration:
Options can be changed in the WKeyKill.ini file.  You can double click the file to open it in Notepad.  Details about setting the options are provided in the file.  The defaults should be fine for most people, but if you want to play with the settings, go ahead.  Note that you must save any changes to WKeyKill.ini and then shut down and restart the WinKey Killer program for the changes to take effect.  

About the design:
The program was designed to use as little memory, disk space and processor time as is practically possible.  It should have virtually no impact on performance with even the slowest 486 or Pentium computers.  The program uses 10k of disk space and 44k of memory.  Other programs available on the Web that also disable the Windows key use tens, if not hundreds of kilobytes of disk space and 1-3 megabytes of memory.  Some even use enormous, bloated runtime libraries that you have to download if you don't all ready have them.  If you're running a machine with 32 MB or memory or less, then wasting megabytes of memory on a utility that has a very simple purpose such as this is totally unacceptable.  Lean and mean is the way to go.

Revision history:
1.2 - By request, added option to prevent WinKey Killer from shutting down if you run it a second time
1.1 - Added option to disable all the WinKey combinations like WinKey+E for Explorer and WinKey+C for Control Panel
1.0 - First release

Suggestions:
If you have any suggestions as far as improving the program or if you have any problems (or bug reports), send me an e-mail at bjackson@plutonium.net or visit my Web site at http://home.plutonium.net/~bjackson
