How to disable "ThinkPad Zoom"?

How to disable "ThinkPad Zoom"?

I have a ThinkPad T61p that is running Vista 32-bit SP2. I program in Eclipse a lot, and I find that when I try to type the code completion hotkey (Ctrl-Space), I often accidentally press the ThinkPad Zoom combination (Fn-Space). This not only causes the screen to switch to 800x600 resolution, but it swaps ALL my running applications back in, and derails whatever train of thought I had.

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bert [Entry]

"If this feature is completely useless and you would like to remove it permanently, you can always go to Vista's Control Panel > Programs and Features, and uninstall the Thinkpad Fullscreen Magnifier utility.

That will disable the Fn+Space keyboard combo."

bert [Entry]

"I was looking to do this with my Lenovo running Windows 7 Pro x64, however, I did not want to uninstall it because I may need it later or another user on the laptop may need it.

So what I did was use the utility ""pskill.exe"" from SysInternals (Microsoft) and terminate the program ""tpscrex.exe"" upon login (using a shortcut in the user's Startup programs group)."