Microsoft Windows has an excellent feature called accessibility. In order to toggle this feature, Windows has built-in shortcuts using the RIGHT-SHIFT key. Unfortunately, those shortcuts are sometime annoying (if you maintain the RIGHT-SHIFT key pressed while thinking about your next keystroke, an unwanted pop-up appears) and even can cause deadlocks (if using a firewall such as ZoneAlarm, when maintaining the RIGHT-SHIFT key for 8 seconds, a ZoneAlarm pop-up appears, but the keyboard and mouse are locked, so you have no other solution than hitting the OFF switch, losing your work).
Hopefully, Windows has a (complex) API for this feature. So I developped a small program to enable/disable accessibility shortcuts.
shortcuts.exe is a command-line program.
enter "shortcut.exe" or "shortcut.exe 0" to disable accessibility shortcuts.
enter "shortcuts.exe 1" to re-enable them.
You typically put shortcuts.exe in your startup folder so that it is executed at startup.
NOTA: Shortcuts can't be disabled if accessibility keys are active.
The source is here . It compiles with MinGW, but I suspect that it can be compiled also with VC.
The executable is there.
This program is free software, according to the GPL.
Enjoy!
michel HAT gouget DOTT org