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re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping'
Friday, August 16, 2002 at 10:53 am
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Posted by David DeSimone (6 messages posted)

Does anyone know a way to completely disable the CAPS LOCK and INSERT keys?

I found the following registry entry works on Windows 2000, for disabling the CAPS LOCK key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

This remaps the CAPS LOCK to LEFT CTRL. If you wanted the key to be "dead", i.e. do nothing, you could give the code 00003a00 instead of 1d003a00. In order to modify the INSERT key, you would need to the scancode for it. Offhand, I don't know what it is. A reboot is required for these changes to take effect. I prefer this solution because there is no process left running in memory constantly...

Written in response to:: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Ken Collins: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 at 5:17 am)

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Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Ken Collins: Tue, Aug 21, 2001, 5:17 am)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Toby Gibson: Sun, Oct 14, 2001, 1:42 pm)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Ken Collins: Sun, Oct 14, 2001, 2:01 pm)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Jacek: Wed, Jan 9, 2002, 9:17 am)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Andy: Mon, Jan 20, 2003, 4:41 pm)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (stan: Mon, Nov 5, 2001, 6:05 am)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Ray Duncan: Mon, Jan 21, 2002, 5:52 am)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (MikeK: Wed, Jan 23, 2002, 10:36 am)

Disabling CapsLock, F1, Insert (Addie MacGruer: Mon, Aug 18, 2003, 8:41 am)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Jimi W: Sat, Feb 9, 2002, 4:30 am)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Ray Duncan: Sat, Feb 9, 2002, 5:57 am)

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re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (Stephen Ferris: Sat, Jul 3, 2004, 3:28 pm)

re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping' (David DeSimone: Fri, Aug 16, 2002, 10:53 am)

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