Disable F1 in Visual Studio

If you are using Visual Studio on a laptop, especially the smaller ones a.k.a. the Netbook, the keys are way too close to each other and I often end up hitting the F1 button instead of the ESC key.

Here’s a simple tip to disable the F1 key in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 or 2010 to save you from some annoyance.

In Visual Studio, Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard > Select Help.F1Help and say Remove

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Simple tip but extremely useful for Netbook owners like me!

6 comments:

  1. i also removed this key F1 and use this istead of Shift + F12.

    are this better ?

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  2. This is the best damn post on the internet. THANK YOU!

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  3. I'm amazed you can run Visual Studio on a netbook!

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  4. Yes and I run VS 2010 along with SQL 2008 express :) it's an ASUS netbook, less powerful but extremely handy with 1GB RAM + Atom N455 processor

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  5. Can you help me about disabling the F1 function so that I can used it for other function like I want to appear a new form when I press F1??
    Thank You!

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