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Disable the Right Mouse Button?

2:00PM Adam Pash | Dear Lifehacker, I’ve been searching around for a solution to disabling the right mouse button for my son, Xander (4), who gets very frustrated when he inadvertently mashes the right button. There’s a shareware program out there that fits the bill, but I’m hoping that there is a freeware program, or some other solution that will completely disable the right button for when he is logged in. Yours, Too-Many-Buttons Dear Buttons, Whipping together a script and simple program to disable the right-click button on your mouse is a breeze using AutoHotkey. Hit the jump to see how and to download the KillRightClick script and executable. More »

Mimic Vista’s File Rename Feature in XP

1:00PM Adam Pash | Dear Lifehacker, The only Vista feature (honestly) I hoped that XP could have is a very simple one. In Explorer if you hit F2 to rename a file Vista automatically selects the file name WITHOUT the extension, something that does not happen in XP. I cannot begin to describe how frustrating it is to hit F2+Shift+< -