That Damnable Windows Key
January 25, 2008 4:41pm
On a related note on my less-than-heralded return to gaming, I rediscovered something that really puts my panties in a bunch: the left-side Windows key.
You know what I’m talking about. You’re in the middle of a map, and your pinky hits it, leaving your character dead in the water until your ALT+TAB fu kicks in and you switch back to the game.
Well, there is a solution: the registry.
You can create a new a new binary value in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout named “Scancode Map” with a value of 00000000000000000200000000005BE000000000, or you can download and run this registry patch.
NOTE: this only disables the LEFT Windows Key.
Either way, you need to reboot to see the difference. Happy fraggin’ y’all.
Orangelo Rising
January 25, 2008 4:31pm
Now, at any given point in my life will I be considered a great gamer, but I’m not half-bad. I have fun, and that’s all that counts.
Lately (since I’ve gotten my new computer), I’ve been hopping back into gaming. I was logging a bunch of hours a while ago when beta-testing for GameFlood, but it went live and I had other work to do.
I was perusing GameFlood recently and came across this Half-Life 2 mod called Follow Freeman (their site | GameFlood), a co-operative game where the players must work together to clear the level. If you’re lucky, you simply have to kill all the aliens (before they kill you) and figure a) where the end of the map is and b) get there. Sometimes, you have to protect a non-playing character from the aliens while doing the previous.
It’s really quite fun, and I recommend you try it. If y’all want to play any of those (HL/HL2) games, let me know – my steam handle is Orangelo.
