P: Ability to disable Alt menu capability

Why is this beyond the pale to fix? They left it in place so that we can use it, just in the most damned annoying way possible. Every couple of minutes the alt key gets the context stuck in some random panel somewhere and now every keystroke is throwing windows beeps until I do this little ritual of minimizing and restoring the window... Seems to be a common solution to a lot of PS bugs, maybe they should figure out why that is, and then fix the damned problem.

Activating the menu with the Alt key is certainly natural Windows behavior and I read somewhere that this is part of an ADA policy initiated by Microsoft. Accessibility ok ... but for graphics software? hmm ...
This is of course a Photoshop forum, but I said that I have the same (even bigger) problems with Illustrator's Alt key behavior and I remember that in the earlier days of Illustrator 8, there was an option to activate a certain menu if you pressed the Alt key and a second key at the same time (not consecutively). The Alt key alone did nothing and nothing stole focus when that key was pressed. This worked perfectly! You could easily activate the effects menu in full screen without the need to leafe the menuless mode.

@Earth Oliver  said  'No other apps in Windows suffer from this problem, so it's 100% an Adobe issue.'

Most other apps I use on Windows use the Microsoft function using Alt key to quickly access their menus

Dave

Interesting, I get a highlight in Outlook's menus when I hit the ALT key...

Ironically the ALT menu seems to be deactivated in Lightroom.

@PECourtejoie No other apps in Windows suffer from this problem, so it's 100% an Adobe issue.

I wonder if the Microsoft forums might be a better venue for this request.

+1 for the option to disable the ALT menu.
It's very annoying to have the menu pop up while using the clone stamp or brush tool.
Please let us choose to deactivate it.

In Adobe Audition and Adobe Primiere Pro I have an issue with the ALT button activating the menu bar. While working on a project I can easily use hot keys like space and V or R or C to toggle the playback and switch between tools. However, if I touch the alt key for ANY reason such as an Alt+scroll wheel to zoom or scroll on the time, or if I accidentally press Alt instead of Ctrl then the next button I press will open a part of the menu at the top. For example Alt then V will open the view tab. It completely distrupts my workflow!! In doing a bit of research I discovered that this feature is called "Menu Acceleration" and has been a built in feature of the Windows OS for years. I thought it was a "sticky" button problem but that wasn't the solution either.  This is not just a Windows 10 problem and there is no way to turn it off in Windows without altering the coding. There needs to be a way to disable this in Adobe if Windows continues to refuse to allow it to be disabled. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING ... just let me use the alt button in peace. 

I'm complaining about this issue for almost 10 years now. It is like mapping the controls for gas and brake onto a single pedal and Adobe feels ok with it, since it's supposed to be a feature, not a bug.

Illustrator feels even worse because i am pressing the alt button every second and not just for zooming.