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WinKey Killer - Version 1.5
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.  There's no
visible window, so WinKey Killer will quietly launch, disable the keys
you have set to disable and go to sleep.  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 9.5KB of disk space and 40KB 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 32MB
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:
1.5 - Added option to disable the program setting itself to idle.
      Disable this option if you have sluggish keyboard response in a DOS
      application running on Windows NT.
1.4 - Internal improvements to make program faster and smaller.  I didn't
      think it could be done, but I proved myself wrong.
1.3 - Fixed so disables properly on NT 4.  This also fixed an intermittent
      problem with Windows key being enabled after pressing <Alt> and
      <Esc> keys.
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+F for Find
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
