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There is something going on with my Windows 7 machine where attempting to unlock the workstation the Win key is "stuck" on (not quite sure what is causing this).

What this causes is that when I am entering my password, which contains a "p", Windows thinks I am pressing Win + p as if I want to change my display settings to enable a projector. This is highly annoying when attempting to unlock my workstation!

The workaround I've found to "unstick" the Win key is to cycle through the projector/display settings once, land back on the original value, and then resume entering my password as normal.

But is there any way to completely disable the shortcut for Win + p ? In all likelihood I will never hook up a projector to this machine, or on the once-in-a-lifetime chance that I do, I am more than happy with having to go into the Display Settings myself.

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Have you enabled "Sticky Keys" by accident and you've got the Win key in it's "on" state?

If you press the Win key before entering your password does the problem occur?

Here's a page that tells you how to turn them off.

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You can try to disable the Windows Key shortcuts (doesn't disable the Windows Key completely, only the Windows Key + key keyboard shortcuts)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5937-windows-key-shortcuts-enable-disable.html

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I'm curious if there is anyway to just disable an individual shortcut – matt b Apr 9 '10 at 17:22
From what I have seen, no, you can only either disable all Win-key shortcuts or disable them all. That was a very irritating aspect of XP and Microsoft does not seem to have learned at all since then. :| It is (mostly) possible to just disable them all and reproduce certain ones manually. For example, I have managed to use a hotkey program to (re)map Win+D to show the desktop and Win+R to show the Run dialog, but how the heck to you recreate Win+Tab for cycling windows? (Hopefully that last one is not affected by "NoWinKeys".) – Synetech Jan 6 '11 at 18:02
@Synetech (:-)), nope Win+Tab is disabled with NoWinKeys, however Win+P is not. :-| – Synetech Mar 20 '11 at 1:17
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