Turn Off Right-Click in Windows completely

[Soultech]

Hi all,

I am looking for info from anyone as to if it's possible to completely disable the right click in Windows XP, e.g. not just in IE (you can still right click flash files, or if you know how to stop right clicking on flash files in IE that'll be good too). Preferably I'd like to use no additional tools or drivers as it will be used for business purposes and I don't want licensing hassle.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Soultech

[pawnstar]

Umm.. WHY?

If you need to, I got this from: How to Disable Right Click in Windows XP: 8 steps - wikiHow

1. Open up the "run" command (if it is disabled use 'Windows Key' + R)
2. Type in "regedit" but without the quotations. Then push enter.
3. Navigate to:
4. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer]
5. Look for the value name "NoViewContextMenu" (if no such value exists, then just go ahead and create it)
6. Make sure the type is REG_DWORD
7. Type in a 0 to disable right clicking and a 1 to enable right clicking.
8. Restart your computer after the modification.

[Soultech]

Thanks for this but this is not exactly what I needed. This only works in Explorer Windows but what I need is for it to work in IE (which I can do) and on Flash (which you can't seem to do completely) which is why I need a full right click disable in Windows so the right click isn't actioned at all.

Thanks anyway.

Alternatively, if anyone can advise of a way to make the left and right click act as a left click this would also be great.

[pawnstar]

The menu of a flash movie can be disabled using the menu attribute, and setting it to false like so:
<EMBED src=transparent.swf type="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" quality="high" menu=false
bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH=120 HEIGHT=30>

[Soultech]

Thanks again Pawnstar but that only reduces the menu to 'Settings' and 'About' which will still appear when a right click happens. Unfortunately I need it to not show any menu at all

[Singh400]

What exactly are you trying to achieve. Perhaps there is another method to what you are trying to achieve.

[Soultech]

I have a system that runs a fullscreen IE window, that has an embedded Flash file. A user can plug a mouse into it but mustn't be able to see any context menus, in either IE, graphics or on the Flash file. IE has a setting which you can disable website right clicks but this is not effective in Flash. As pawnstar suggested above there is a setting to stop the main context menu in Flash but it still shows a context menu with About and Settings and the requirement is to show no context menus at all.

Left click still needs to be enabled so an overlay is not a suitable suggestion unless it allows left clicks through. Shareware/license tools are not an option either (there are ones out there that do it for teaching kids to use a PC etc) and neither is a single button mouse.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received. I am currently investigating using Windows hooks to programmatically grab the right click and just not action it but any other suggestions would be great.

Thanks

[grahamlthompson]

Originally Posted by Soultech

I have a system that runs a fullscreen IE window, that has an embedded Flash file. A user can plug a mouse into it but mustn't be able to see any context menus, in either IE, graphics or on the Flash file. IE has a setting which you can disable website right clicks but this is not effective in Flash. As pawnstar suggested above there is a setting to stop the main context menu in Flash but it still shows a context menu with About and Settings and the requirement is to show no context menus at all.

Left click still needs to be enabled so an overlay is not a suitable suggestion unless it allows left clicks through. Shareware/license tools are not an option either (there are ones out there that do it for teaching kids to use a PC etc) and neither is a single button mouse.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received. I am currently investigating using Windows hooks to programmatically grab the right click and just not action it but any other suggestions would be great.

Thanks

How about the Blue Peter Approach , open up the mouse and snip one of the wires off the right button microswitch.

[Soultech]

haha, nice try . The system is a delivered system so any old mouse could be plugged into it so I have no control over that the solution has to be software i'm afraid.

[pawnstar]

Something like this?

Uza’s Blog & More » Blog Archive » SOLVED: Right Click in AS3

[Soultech]

hmmmm...let me power up the old laptop and give it a go.

Cheers for the hard work

[Soultech]

Have a thanks because I couldn't find any method to do that but (here i go adding more problems) preferably I would like to not have to edit the actual Flash file.

So keep the suggestions coming.

[pawnstar]

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

<!-- Begin
function right(e) {
var msg = "Sorry, you don't have permission to right-click.";
if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' && e.which == 3) {
alert(msg);
return false;
}
if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' && event.button==2) {
alert(msg);
return false;
}
else return true;
}

function trap()
{
if(document.images)
{
for(i=0;i<document.images.length;i++)
{
document.images[i].onmousedown = right;
document.images[i].onmouseup = right;
}
}
}
// End -->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>

<!-- STEP ONE: Copy the event handler into the BODY tag -->

<BODY onLoad="trap()">

<!-- Script Size: 0.81 KB -->

Any good?

[Mr Incredible]

Would reassigning the right-click in the mouse Control Panel applet work? i.e. make the right button produce a left click action?