[Tip] Disable or Turn Off Any Desired Key in Your Computer Keyboard

Many times you may find yourself in an annoying situation where you press one more keys accidentally while working on your computer. For example, you press Caps Lock key frequently by mistake while typing in documents.

In such situations, you may want to completely disable and turn off those keys so that even if you accidentally press them, nothing happens and you can continue working on your important work.

In this article, we are going to share 2 free keyboard remapper software programs which will help you in disabling any desired key in your keyboard. Once you turn off these keys, nothing will happen when you press those keys.

Let’s start the tutorial:

1. Keyboard Manager

Keyboard Manager (KBM) is a part of Windows 10 PowerToys and comes bundled with PowerToys program. Keyboard Manager can be used in Windows 10 operating system only.

To use Keyboard Manager, first of all download and install PowerToys utility from following topic:

Download Official Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10

After downloading and installing, launch PowerToys program. If the main program window doesn’t appear on screen, double-click on its icon present in Taskbar notification area (system tray). Now PowerToys program window will display on screen.

Go to Keyboard Manager tab and make sure “Enable Keyboard Manager” toggle button is set to ON.

To disable or turn off desired key, click on “Remap a key” button.

It’ll open a new window. Click on “+” button given under “Key:” section to tell Windows which key do you want to disable.

Now you can select the desired key from the given drop-down box. Alternatively, you can click on “Type Key” button and press the key which you want to disable. Windows will automatically detect it.

Now under “Mapped To:” section, select “Undefined” from the drop-down box. Undefined option is present in the middle of the options list in drop-down box. You can press U key twice to directly select Undefined option in the drop-down list.

At last click on “OK” button. The program can show a message “The following keys are unassigned and you won’t be able to use them“. Ignore the message and click on “Continue Anyway” button.

That’s it. You have successfully disabled your desired key. Now you can try to press the key and nothing will happen.

You can disable more than one key using the same procedure.

Similarly, you can disable a keyboard shortcut (hotkey) by clicking on “Remap a Shortcut” button.

In future, if you decide to re-enable the key, you just need to delete the mapping by clicking on the “Remap a key” or “Remap a shortcut” button and then clicking on Recycle Bin icon given next to the mapped key entry.

2. SharpKeys

SharpKeys is an old software program which can be used in all Windows versions. SharpKeys functionality is quite similar to above mentioned Keyboard Manager program.

You can download and install the program from following topic:

[Windows Tip] Disable or Remap Keys in Your Computer Keyboard Using Sharp Keys

The above mentioned article will teach you how to use SharpKeys to disable any desired key.

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