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hresquivelo
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Disabling the key Command for the Start button in Windows XP

Hi. I would like to disable the key Command for the Start button (I mean the left button that lies on the taskbar of Windows XP); how can I do that? Thanks in advance.

PS: I'm using VMware Fusion for mac v2.0.1 and the virtual machine is Windows XP SP2 32-bit. My operating system is Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard).

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I tried that a long time ago and it didn't work.

I've been annoyed ever since, but this thread made me take another look.

Try this:

map the command/apple key to control instead of deleting the assignment.

This also fixed the annoying failure of command-s to save in most of my apps.

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borisdusek
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Fusion menubar > VMware Fusion > Preferences ... > Keyboard & Mouse > Key Mappings > uncheck the first one (mapping of Cmd to Win).

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Thanks for your reply. I tried that, but it didn't work. Any idea? I think it's a bug. Thanks indeed.

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I tried that a long time ago and it didn't work.

I've been annoyed ever since, but this thread made me take another look.

Try this:

map the command/apple key to control instead of deleting the assignment.

This also fixed the annoying failure of command-s to save in most of my apps.

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Piggy
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It annoyed the heck out of me, too. Someone here suggested I map it to Shift and that did the trick!

I'm not really sure why I have two Keyboard & Mouse profiles - one 'Profile - default' and the other 'Mac profile.' Do you have that? Maybe I duplicated it at some point.

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bkaupe
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I have two profiles, too, but I don't care.

It turns out I lied about the command-s being related - I was just missing the mapping - must have deleted it some time ago.

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That was the trick! Many thanks.

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