Actually, your keyboard's
Windows key acts like the
command key on the
Macintosh platform, if you plug a PC
USB Keyboard (like an
Internet Natural Keyboard, or what not). If you have
Intellitype available (you should be able to download it from the
Microsoft Macintosh website), it allows you to switch the
alt key and the
command key (so that people who are used to the
position of the
command key do not have to re-learn it for the
keyboard, which is naturally
switched.
The
Windows Key (along with the
Application Key) was designed for
power users (and unfortunately not
gamers) in mind. It allows you to nail a bunch of fast keyboard shortcuts to make your life easier, without having to go to the
mouse. Along with ALT for the menus and control for options, you can navigate all of windows without having to use a mouse. This is an very important
usability feature (or if your
mouse suddenly
bites it like mine has several times).
To make a gamer's life easier, there are several programs (for windows 9x only), that capture and ignore that keystroke, if you do not want to break out
Kernel Toys, and the keyboard
remapper. If in
Windows 2000 you want to make your keyboard act as a normal board in your config.nt file, place the following line:
switches=/k
That should force the
standard driver to
ignore those enhanced
signals.