How to Disable the Insert Key in Windows
Almost anyone who has used a
wordprocessor has accidentally hit the
Insert key and overwritten when they
thought they were editing. This
article describes a simple way to
disable the Insert key on your
keyboard.
Whenever you press a key, a windows
message is created, which contains a
key code that uniquely identifies the
key pressed. Programmes (like
Microsoft Word) look for keypress
messages and take actions based on the
key code in the message. By mapping
the insert key press event to null,
windows send a message containing null
for the key code when the Insert key
is pressed. Programmes receiving the
message, therefore, do not perform the
action associated with an insert key
press event, freeing you from having
to worry about overwriting things
again.
- Go to Start → Run → regedit
- Go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard
Layout
- Right-click on the right half of the screen and choose New → Binary
Value
- Name the new value Scancode Map
- Enter 000000000000000002000000000052E000000000
- Close regedit
- Reboot.
- Optional: you can take the Insert key off of your keyboard when
done.
If you do this with Windows7 regedit,
you have to enter the hex value in rows of 8 bytes, like this:
Value Data:
0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0008 02 00 00 00 00 00 52 E0
0010 00 00 00 00
Source
Registry file (.reg) to apply the fix as described above
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,52,e0,00,00,00,00
Put the above text into a file with a .reg extension (e.g.: disable-insert.reg), and double click.
Best Answer
Prior to Win 10 I used to disable the Caps Lock key by a regedit. With Win 10 this was no longer possible (at least for me). However, there is a program called SharpKeys that works well - I disabled the Caps Lock easily. Haven't tried the Insert key however I believe you should be able to do so.I did check and the Insert key is listed under the groups "Special Keys" so it should work fine.
You can find SharpKeys here:
http://www.randyrants.com/