Disable Win+V in Windows 8

[phitsc]

I've been using Win+V to activate Paste in ClipX. Unfortunately, with Windows 8 Win+V is used for something else (by Windows itself). But since it's something I don't need, I'd rather disable the functionality for Windows and keep using it for ClipX. Anyone knows if this is possible and how to do it?

[Carol Haynes]

Google isn't your friend on this one - I couldn't find any way to change Win 8 default keyboard shortcuts.

[Rijul Ahuja]

Use AutoHotkey or AutoIt.

[f0dder]

Use AutoHotkey or AutoIt.

-Rijul Ahuja (January 17, 2013, 12:13 PM)

That has worked for me in the past to get control of Win+whatever shortcuts.

While I understand that Win+SingleLetter are reserved for Microsoft, it would still be nice of them if they had a place where you could enable/disable those built-in hotkeys at will.

[phitsc]

It's especially annoying since with Windows 8 they now use so many of the Win+SingleLetters, and for stuff which I really don't care about. The fact that applications like Visual Studio and applications with similar complexity have basically used up the whole alphabet for shortcut keys further complicate the matter

[Curt]

It seems the problem may also have been caused by the third-party software authors, rather than just by Windows 8:

What is new in version 3.0

    Fixed issue that prevented many Hot-Keys from working on Windows 8.  You can once again use WINDOWS+V and many other Hot-Key combinations.
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

-PureText

[phitsc]

That's an interesting piece of information. Thanks for sharing Curt.

Sounds like Win+... shortcuts can be "overwritten" by an application then. Maybe an API that has changed with Windows 8.

[f0dder]

Sounds like Win+... shortcuts can be "overwritten" by an application then. Maybe an API that has changed with Windows 8.

-phitsc (January 18, 2013, 01:58 AM)

I don't think there's any changes - it's just that Win8 added more Win+X shortcut keys.

AutoHotKey (and probably AutoIt?) is able to override the shortcuts that Windows (explorer.exe, I assume?) set up. Dunno the technique behind, perhaps global keyboard hook - I seem to recall that a hotkey override wasn't effective when focus was on a program launched with administrative privileges, that would at least support the keyboard hook theory.