Win2k shutdown from keyboard - can I prevent this?

[Guest George Orwell]

When I shutdown Windows 2000 from the start menu,

it spends ages shutting down.

However, if I press the "Power" key on the keyboards,

I see a little alert box saying

Windows is shutting down

for half a second, the power snuffs out.

Yet when I reboot, I don't get scandisk running, as I

would expect from such a rapid ending.

So is it okay to kill Windows by the keyboard?

But I wish to disable the Power key on the keyboard.

I went to control panel, and can't find anything

under the power or keyboard options.

 

 

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[Guest Kyle]

Re: Win2k shutdown from keyboard - can I prevent this?

 

Key remapping under win2k requires a registry edit. Google for

examples and you should find some tips on how its done.

 

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"George Orwell" <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote in message

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| When I shutdown Windows 2000 from the start menu,

| it spends ages shutting down.

| However, if I press the "Power" key on the keyboards,

| I see a little alert box saying

| Windows is shutting down

| for half a second, the power snuffs out.

| Yet when I reboot, I don't get scandisk running, as I

| would expect from such a rapid ending.

| So is it okay to kill Windows by the keyboard?

| But I wish to disable the Power key on the keyboard.

| I went to control panel, and can't find anything

| under the power or keyboard options.

|

|

| Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this

| non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real

| reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an

| di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system

| Per maggiori informazioni |For more info

| https://www.mixmaster.it

|

[Guest Andrew Rossmann]

Re: Win2k shutdown from keyboard - can I prevent this?

 

In article <7da0ca68f910888628e057ea302d74c3@mixmaster.it>,

nobody@mixmaster.it says...

> When I shutdown Windows 2000 from the start menu,

> it spends ages shutting down.

> However, if I press the "Power" key on the keyboards,

> I see a little alert box saying

> Windows is shutting down

> for half a second, the power snuffs out.

> Yet when I reboot, I don't get scandisk running, as I

> would expect from such a rapid ending.

> So is it okay to kill Windows by the keyboard?

> But I wish to disable the Power key on the keyboard.

> I went to control panel, and can't find anything

> under the power or keyboard options.

 

I had a keyboard that had 'power' keys. I found it annoying when I kept

hitting them by mistake. The easist fix is to simply pry off the

keycaps. They just snap in on most keyboards.

 

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[Guest Kyle]

Re: Win2k shutdown from keyboard - can I prevent this?

 

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx

 

is a link to a keyboard mapping tool from MS, looks to be quite

useful, requires dot.bloat to work tho.

 

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"Kyle" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message

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| Key remapping under win2k requires a registry edit. Google for

| examples and you should find some tips on how its done.

|

| --

| Best regards,

| Kyle

| "George Orwell" <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote in message

| news:7da0ca68f910888628e057ea302d74c3@mixmaster.it...

| | When I shutdown Windows 2000 from the start menu,

| | it spends ages shutting down.

| | However, if I press the "Power" key on the keyboards,

| | I see a little alert box saying

| | Windows is shutting down

| | for half a second, the power snuffs out.

| | Yet when I reboot, I don't get scandisk running, as I

| | would expect from such a rapid ending.

| | So is it okay to kill Windows by the keyboard?

| | But I wish to disable the Power key on the keyboard.

| | I went to control panel, and can't find anything

| | under the power or keyboard options.

| |

| |

| | Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this

| | non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real

| | reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an

| | di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system

| | Per maggiori informazioni |For more info

| | https://www.mixmaster.it

| |

|

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Win2k shutdown from keyboard - can I prevent this?

 

Yes, as you can see "Windows" is shutting itself down as instructed. On

the other hand IF you pulled the power plug out of the wall, THEN you

stand the chance if mangling a file write and having a "dirty disk" that

requires CHKDSK to run. (Scandisk is ONLY in the "DOS" versions of

Windows, NOT the NT versions). IF you want to "kill" the "Power Key" by

software, then it will need to be reassigned in the Registry. Here are

two links to the information to allow you to change it.

 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/w2kscan-map.mspx

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

 

George Orwell wrote:

> When I shutdown Windows 2000 from the start menu,

> it spends ages shutting down.

> However, if I press the "Power" key on the keyboards,

> I see a little alert box saying

> Windows is shutting down

> for half a second, the power snuffs out.

> Yet when I reboot, I don't get scandisk running, as I

> would expect from such a rapid ending.

> So is it okay to kill Windows by the keyboard?

> But I wish to disable the Power key on the keyboard.

> I went to control panel, and can't find anything

> under the power or keyboard options.

>

>

> Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this

> non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real

> reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an

> di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system

> Per maggiori informazioni |For more info

> https://www.mixmaster.it

>

[Guest zeke7]

Re: Win2k shutdown from keyboard - can I prevent this?

 

On Feb 6, 10:00 pm, George Orwell <nob...@mixmaster.it> wrote:

> When I shutdown Windows 2000 from the start menu,

> it spends ages shutting down.

> However, if I press the "Power" key on the keyboards,

> I see a little alert box saying

> Windows is shutting down

> for half a second, the power snuffs out.

> Yet when I reboot, I don't get scandisk running, as I

> would expect from such a rapid ending.

> So is it okay to kill Windows by the keyboard?

> But I wish to disable the Power key on the keyboard.

> I went to control panel, and can't find anything

> under the power or keyboard options.

>

> Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this

> non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real

> reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an

> di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system

> Per maggiori informazioni |For more info

> https://www.mixmaster.it

 

You might first try searching online to see if a driver update for

your keyboard is available that does provide a disable power key

setting.

 

BTW, if you want to retain power ON capability from the keyboard, the

BIOS sometimes has a keyboard-combo setting you can define to enable

this (depending on your MB).