howto Disable the insert key in Windows permanently

[Steven P. Administrators]

This thing drives me nuts when I am editing a post or using our CMS on Neowin. I found the solution here https://superuser.com/questions/31794/windows-insert-key-anti-functionality-accidentally-triggers-how-to-stop-it-perm for clarity, this for when the cursor starts replacing every character you have your cursor on rather than putting it in front of a character.

 

1. Go to Start → Run → regedit
2. Go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
3. Right-click on the right half of the screen and choose New → Binary Value
4. Name the new value Scancode Map
5. Enter 000000000000000002000000000052E000000000
6. Close regedit
7. Reboot.

 

Optional: you can take the Insert key off of your keyboard when done.

 

Or do as I did and save the following as disable_insert_key.reg and merge (as an Administrator) into registry.

 

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

 

Reboot + profit.