Disabling Print Screen Key

[NavinS]

Can anyone tell me if there is any solution to disable the print screen key so that users will not be able to capture what so ever is there on their screen. This feature that I am wanting is because for some security reasons. Thanks for any help in advance.

[Wesley Vogel]

You can try to use CALL SetUEvent in Assembly Routine to Disable PRINT SCREEN. Follow the article here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/35968 that provides an example of calling Basic's SetUEvent routine from an assembly-language interrupt routine to disable the screen dump performed by the PRINT SCREEN key (found on enhanced IBM keyboards) or the SHIFT+PRSCR or SHIFT+PRTSC key (found on earlier, nonenhanced IBM PC keyboards).

[Metaldigger]

You can download a script to disable Print Screen Key from here. You can even use registry entry to disable print screen but it will only work with elevated permission rights and a reboot:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,2a,e0,00,00,37,e0,\
00,00,54,00,00,00,00,00

Or this vbs script:

'Disable Print Screen Function
const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
strKeyPath = "SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Keyboard Layout"
strComputer = "."
BinaryValueName = "Scancode Map"
iValues = Array(&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H04,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H2a,&He0,&H00,&H00,&H37,&He0,&H00,&H00,&H54,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00)
Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
disablePS = oReg.SetBinaryValue(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,BinaryValueName,iValues)