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In some games I use the right-shift key in combination with the up-arrow to perform a function (run). Even though I have sticky key functions all turned off, somehow I believe the sticky keys shortcut is executed anyway and it crashes the game leaving my keyboard unresponsive. A hard reboot is required to restore function.
I wish to reassign the shortcut key for sticky keys to something I NEVER press like the \ key ;)
I installed Windows Power Tools, but don't see the sticky keys shortcut to edit.
Click your Start Button, type regedit and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.
Click View and make sure 'Address Bar' is turned on.
Paste this into the Address Bar at the top and hit Enter.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\StickyKeys
In the right hand pane, double click the Flags entry, set its Value Data to 506 and click OK.
Close the Registry Editor and restart (not shut down) your PC to apply the change.
I am testing this in my game now. It may be a day or two before I can verify the malfunction no longer occurs...
Is '506' the code to switch the hotkey from right-shift to \ or does it mean something else?
Setting that data value to 506 should disable the hotkey function to enable Sticky keys
What I want to try, if it is even possible, is reassigning some key other than the right-shift to the sticky keys shortcut. Disabling the shortcut doesn't prevent the problem I have in Unity games. If I can assign some key I never use in-game, I can be certain the sticky keys are not somehow still being triggered when I hold the right-shift key down for many seconds straight. I disabaled them in the keyboard controls and via HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\StickyKeys and neither eliminates the problem...
There is no method in Windows to assign that keyboard shortcut to other keys, it is hard-coded into the OS, the only option, if that registry edit did not solve the problem, would be to go into the setting of your game(s) in there, there should be an option to use a different key combination for that action in the game.
