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by vswearingen

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I am an applications trainer and my firm is rolling out Windows 2000 to the desktop. As I am training the pilot users, if they hang on the shift key, a reminder window pops up to tell them about the "sticky keys" feature. Try though I might, I am unable to find a place to turn off all these reminders and prevent the shortcuts or "tips" from appearing. My colleagues also are stumped and Microsoft.com does not reply to my inquiry. Does anyone have an answer to this question?

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by compsci

One way is to explicitly turn off the 'shortcut' keys to each of the features that are available.

Control Panel..
Accessibility Options..
Keyboard tab..
Uncheck "Use Shortcut"

Repeat for each feature that you want to disable.

Hope that this helps.

by vswearingen

add one step: After Keyboard tab, settings, then uncheck "use shortcut". Inexplicably it turns itself back on, haven't figured out the pattern yet though.

Thanks.

by parbo

If the previous answer doesnt help you might want to consider using REGMON. As the nam indicates it monitors the registry and it does this in real time. So you can set it up to capture what you're doing. this should show you what registry keys are causing what. If you're familiar enough with the registry you should be able to get rid of the pop-ups

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