How to disable the Ctrl-D function? Erasing emails!

toddcan · Sep 20, 2009

We just got a laptop, and the keyboard layout is killing us. The Ctrl key is so much closer to the Shift key, so very often, we when typing an email, we accidently hit "ctrl-d" instead of Shift-d (trying to capitalize the D). For some reason, this highlights an entire paragraph, and instantly deletes it at the same time... very frustrating.

The program is an email program called FirstClass, but it also happens in MS Word.

Any suggestions?

lemur · Sep 21, 2009

In Word, what if you created a macro which changed the capitalization of a letter, then assigned it "ctrl-d" as the macro key?

archie123 · Sep 21, 2009

if you dont use any of them you can use this

Disable Win+X Shortcut Keys on Windows Vista :: the How-To Geek

obviously this will disable all your shortcut keys

or you could use this to disable/change it

AutoHotkey - Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText

there is a way to disable a specific key combination i think if you google it you may find something , i couldnt though

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