On 29 Jul 2018 18:09:09 GMT, Arlen Holder wrote:

I don't generally ask a question that has an easy answer.

Actually, I may have been unfair to Ken who was trying to help, so I
apologize for my frustration (I'm dealing with bully trolls on the iOS
newsgroup and I have to realize that most people here are purposefully
helpful as opposed to most people there).

I apologize Ken Blake as your advice might work as might the advice of Paul
and Stan Brown.

Here's my plan, where I won't respond further until I at least test out the
plan (or if new information arises).

a. I know that Sharpkeys exists - so I need to test if it does what I need,
which is to *selectively* disable *just* the Start Menu from coming up when
the Windows key is pressed, leaving all other Windows-key shortcuts intact.

b. I know that Autohotkey exists - so I need to test if it does what I
need, which is to *selectively* disable *just* the Start Menu from coming
up when the Windows key is pressed, leaving all other Windows-key shortcuts
intact.

c. I know snapshot-specific tools exist (e.g., Irfanview, Snippingtool,
etc.) which will snap a screen directly to a file but they all seem to need
to be running in the background (which is not what I want, nor which is
what most people want, I would think).

The overall goal is to do exactly what Win+PrtScreen does, which is snap a
screenshot to a file in a single keystroke, without having to run a program
first - and where accidentally bouncing my finger on the Windows key does
NOT bring up the Start Menu.

I think the only valid solutions are the following, all of which I will
test over time, but I won't be spending tons of time on it so folks need to
know I will respond with the solution later rather than sooner.

I do apologize to Ken Blake again, for my previous response moments ago,
which I tried to stop, but it went through. I was in a bad mood and I
apologize because Ken was being purposefully helpful (which is all that
matters).

I apologize to Ken. I was wrong.

Back to the solution... I see only these methods:
a. Figure out if Sharpkeys or Autohotkey can selectively disable "just" the
Start Menu from coming up (leaving all other Windows key functions alive).
b. Figure out how to script a shell script that accomplishes the same thing
as does Win+PrintScreen, bearing in mind it has to be able to work without
a program running in the background (unless that's completely transparent).

Thanks again for the purposefully helpful advice, and apologies to Ken for
my untoward response to his purposefully helpful suggestion.