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I want to essentially absorb key presses.
I’m currently using key preview on my main form and have an event handler for a key press that checks if the windows key is pressed. Is there a way to prevent the key press for leaving the application and opening the start menu?
There is an option for specific controls to suppress a key press, is there a way to suppress a key press to Windows?
The only way to intercept keyboard events outside your application is with P/Invoke SetWindowsHookEx. This will set a global callback to keyboard events agnostic of the focused application.