Disable Alt + Arrow display flip keyboard shortcut

Question

Whenever I click Alt + Arrow up/Arrow down my screen will do an unwanted flip. I'd like to disable this shortcut behaviour. I've already looked at Super User question How to stop my laptop's screen from rotating when I press Alt + Arrow?.

But Ctrl + Alt + F12 doesn't start any menu for me. How can I fix this problem?

I have an Nvidia graphic card, 2100M, and Windows 7 on a Toshiba computer.

Answer 1

Neither of these answers helped me. What I did:

Right-click on Desktop and select Graphics options > hotkeys > Disable

As indicated in Windows Forums and Microsoft Answers

Answer 2

For these using Intel Graphic, to disable global hotkeys:

• Right click on your Desktop and select:

Answer 3

I had the exact same issue on an Acer notebook with an Intel graphics driver. Simply disabling the feature was not enough, since the keys are still captured and not passed to the system afterwards, even if the rotation did not happen.

That means I was still not able to use this key combination in any other software, because it won't receive the shortcut.

To solve this I opened the Intel graphics properties page, enabled shortcuts, changed all available shortcuts from Ctrl+Alt+(some key) to Ctrl+Shift+(some key), and finally deactivated it again. This way the Ctrl+Alt combination is captured only for the F8 key, which can't be changed, and all other shortcuts are captured by the software I wanted to use (like Eclipse or PHPStorm) - I rarely use the other combination, so this was a valid solution for me.

Answer 4

1. Press Ctrl + Alt + F12
2. Click on "Options and Support"
3. You can now either disable the hotkeys or change the keys.

Answer 5

Have a look at the Control Panel for the Nvidia Desktop Software and launch it. It should bring up a configuration Menu (for screen resolution, etc.) and there should be a Menu Item to disable the Hotkeys. IIRC it is the last Item.

Answer 6

If your processor is from Intel, one of these possibilities should work in your case:
 

1. Right-click on your desktop background and select Graphics Options > Hot Keys > Disable as illustrated in dario's answer.
    

2. Press Ctrl + Alt + F12 to open an Intel dialog box and disable the Hot Keys. You may have to change the shortcuts before disabling them as explained in the Noxoreos' answer.
    

3. Temporary stop process hkcmd using Task manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc) as proposed in the gavenkoa's answer. You may also stop the process igfxTray as suggested by gavenkoa. But on next reboot, this (these) process(es) will start again.
    

4. Disable the starting of hkcmd (and igfxTray):

   • WinKey + R
   • enter msconfig
   • go to tab Startup
   • uncheck C:\windows\system32\hkcmd.exe
   • (and also uncheck igfxtray.exe).

Answer 7

In some obscure place off the internet I found a solution.

Run msconfig (Windows key + R), select startup and disable Toshiba 180 Degrees Rotation Utility; then, click Apply and finally OK.

Answer 8

It is possible to disable hot key catching by Intel applet (by Ctrl+Alt+F12 or from Graphic options on Desktop right click).

But I recommend to disable Intel applets!

Ctrl+Shift+Esc to start Task Manager and disable everything published Intel in Startup tab (hkcmd module is responsible for catching keys, also igfxTray module is useless).

Answer 9

To free up the CtrlAltArrow shortcuts for VS Code's multiple cursors

1. Press CtrlAltF12 to open the Intel Graphics hotkeys window

2. Click inside the hotkey fields and press CtrlAltNEWLETTER to reassign each one. I recommend using the letters D I S A B L E to make it clear to your future self that you deliberately disabled the functionality:

Click Apply.

3. Uncheck the Enable checkbox to disable the hotkeys entirely. Click Apply.

You should now be able to trigger VS Code's multiple cursors using CtrlAltUp/Down (and anything else that requires CtrlAltArrow combinations).