How to disable microsoft ergo keyboard office key

Question

How do I disable or change the mapping on the microsoft "office key"?

For some context:

I have used microsoft ergo keyboard for over 25 years by now, and I love them.

I just got a new one, BUT, to my horror, they remapped the right contextual menu key to emojis (which are useless to me as I am a programmer and professional) and, more problematicaly added an "office key" just next to the extremly important AltGR key (used as a 2nd type of shift on french keybaords and critical to symbols like brackets and other programming sylmbols)...

I keep hitting this stupid key all the time (in part because of the subtle change in key positions between my older microsoft ergo keyboard and this new one, but also because they have made the AltGr key smaller)... It kills my productivity as it keeps bringing up a useless window that I do not need and distracts me...

Please help me turn that thing off (Note, the microsoft keyboad and mous SW does allow to properly assign the emoji key to contextual menu, but NOT the office key :( ).

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Hello de Brebisson, Cyrille,

You can deactivate or reassign the Microsoft Office key by editing the Windows registry:

Edit the registry

1. Open the registry editor

• Press Win + R, type regedit and press Enter.

2. Navigate to the correct key

Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout

3. Create new entry

• Right-click in the right-hand area and select New > Binary value (REG_BINARY).
• Name the new entry:

Scancode Map

4. Set value for deactivation

• Double-click on Scancode Map and set the value to :

00000000 00000000 02000000 0000E01F 00000000

• This deactivates the Office button (E01F is the scan code).

5. Restart

• Restart the PC for the changes to take effect.

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