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Disable Ctrl+Z shortcut or clear undo history in Windows Explorer?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202613491 views
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Problem

Is there any way to disable the CTRL+Z (Undo) shortcut in Windows Explorer? Alternatively, is there a way to have Windows Explorer "forget" its undo history? The reason I ask is that you may have done some file operations in Explorer (copying, renaming, etc.), and perhaps you don't reboot for days …

Error Output

#NoTrayIcon
SetTitleMatchMode RegEx
return

; Disable Ctrl+Z shortcut in Windows Explorer
;
#IfWinActive ahk_class ExploreWClass|CabinetWClass
^z::re…

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Fix for: Disable Ctrl+Z shortcut or clear undo history in Windows Explorer?

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I wrote a program in C to disable both the Undo and Redo shortcuts, since both can lead to accidents. The program can be found at http://purl.org/net/dweundo . It has an installer which, if you want, adds a shortcut in the Start Menu 'Startup' folde…

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