Disabling the media keys?

[gangrel]

I've looked around quite a bit, but I can't find an answer.

I HATE media keys. I detest them. And on this particular cheapo keyboard, they're in a *particularly* annoying location for me. So what I want to do is to turn them OFF! Preferably permanently, altho in Win 10...this might be impossible. (A hint in DosBox suggested deleting certain junk keyboard devices...but freakin' damn Windows 10 put them back in when I rebooted. NO!! But Windows is the god of the computer, so YES. ARGH.) Still, as long as I have SOME method to turn these buttons off, that would be a huge improvement.

This is a generic keyboard, using the default Windows 10 driver.

 

[basroil]

Just buy a better keyboard... All the microsoft and logitec gaming keyboards support disabling it in their respective driver applications. If your drivers don't support disabling the keys, your only options are physical modification or just not being cheap.

 

[gangrel]

It's the generic Windows driver, so IMO it *should* support doing this. It makes little sense NOT to, IMO.

 

[basroil]

It's the generic Windows driver, so IMO it *should* support doing this. It makes little sense NOT to, IMO.

Generic windows drivers DO NOT SUPPORT THAT.
You can try using the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center application (https://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/downloads/mouse-keyboard-center), but there are no guarantees that it'll work

 

[gangrel]

MMKC doesn't help; it's limited to Microsoft devices. Thanks for checking.

I will replace the offensive keyboard.