Sometimes when I am locking down a kiosk machine I need to disable access to any windows Hotkey. This keeps savvy users from getting around by primitive lockdown procedures. A Hotkey is any keyboard shortcut that uses the Windows key. For example you can lock your workstation by pressing Windows Key + L.
To disable it you need to open your trusty regedit and create a new value under this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
The value is: NoWinKeys (DWORD Value)
Set to 1 = Hotkeys disabled. Set to 0 = Hotkeys enabled
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