Application Key - How to Disable

This is a highly technical question; if this is the wrong group, please
point me to the right one:

Please tell me step by step what changes to make in the registry in Windows
XP to disable the "application key" which is the key between the right
Windows key and the right Ctrl key.

Our keyboard is constructed in such a way that we often mistakenly press the
application key while trying to press the right Shift key. We never,
otherwise, use the application key and want to make it dead.

Some technical information is here but I can't translate that into
instructions I can follow to do what I want:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/Scancode.mspx

Thanks in advance to anyone who can and will help.

(Otherwise I shall have to purchase a different keyboard, one shaped such
that it will be harder to hit the application key by mistake. This keyboard
came with a new Gateway computer and someone designed it who is not a typist
but likes its looks...so the application key is not lower than the shift
key - instead its surface smoothly blends into the shift key. Not good.)

Don Enderton wrote:

> This is a highly technical question; if this is the wrong group,
> please point me to the right one:
>
> Please tell me step by step what changes to make in the registry in
> Windows XP to disable the "application key" which is the key between
> the right Windows key and the right Ctrl key.
>
> Our keyboard is constructed in such a way that we often mistakenly
> press the application key while trying to press the right Shift key. We
> never, otherwise, use the application key and want to make it dead.


The keys I always want to disable are the Capslock key and the Insert key,
neither of which I ever want to use, and both of which I sometimes press
accidentally.

Sharpkeys, at http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/, is a useful little
program to disable or reassign keys like these.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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