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Disable and Enable Windows Key on Keyboard


Disable the Windows key

1. Click Start, then type regedt32 in the search box.

2. Click on Keyboard Layout, then in the Registry Editor menu, click on Edit, New, Binary Value.

3. Name the new entry as Scancode Map.

4 Double-click on the new entry and type in 00000000000000000300000000005BE000005CE000000000 as the value data, then click OK. You must type it in manually; copying and pasting will not work. It might be easier to look at it in pairs, as three rows of 16 digits:

example:

0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0008 03 00 00 00 00 00 5B E0
0010 00 00 5C E0 00 00 00 00
0018

5. To save click OK.

6. Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.



Enable the Windows key

1. Click Start, then type regedt32 in the search box.
2. Double-click on HKEY_LOCAL_ MACHINE, then SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Control.
3. Click on Keyboard Layout and right-click on Scancode Map. Click Delete then click Yes.
4. Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.

How to repair WINDOWS/system32/config/SYSTEM missing or corrupt Windows Server 2003

To Repair Windows/system32/config/System missing on Windows 2003


1. Insert your Windows CD and reboot from the CD drive
[To boot from CD, go to BIOS Setup option on startup and select your CD/DVD drive as the first boot drive, save the present settings and exit] Your computer will reboot & will boot from Windows Server 2003

2. Press ‘R’ when offered the option of using the Windows Recovery Console
Recovery Console will prompt at the command prompt type the following:

C:\WINDOWS >cd system32
this changes the current directory to C:\Windows\System32

ren config configold
This renames the config folder to configold

mkdir config
this makes a new directory called config

cd config
changes the current directory to c:\Windows\System32\Config
then type the following lines pressing enter after each one

copy c:\windows\repair\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security
copy c:windows\repair\default
after each line it should say:
1 file copied

type: exit
Now your system will reboot

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