re: ANSWER for Win2k - you can customize but not with the tool noted here!
Monday, January 20, 2003 at 4:35 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andy
(3 messages posted)
L&G,
just to avoid typing WWW:SOMEWEB:TO when trying to type www.someweb.to, you may want
to have a look at this freeware:
http://www.creative-nightshifts.com/caps.exe
Greetings from Germany
Andy
On Thursday, June 6, 2002 at 5:01 am, Pete Holzmann wrote:
>Microsoft has a registry area for customizing keyboards pretty much
>any way you like. See instructions at
>http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/input/w2kscan-map.asp
>
>Here is an example, and some sample scan codes:
>* Format of data is: 0,0,NN000000,[mappings],0
> Where "NN" is number of mappings plus one,
> and mappings are TTTTFFFF (T=to,F=from).
> (Tech folks: all of this is byte-swapped little-endian...)
>* I want to make the caps lock key be ctrl:
> 0,0,02000000,1d003a00,0
>* Open regedt32, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard
>Layout
> (note: NOT "Keyboard Layouts" in plural, which also exists)
>* Edit->Add Value, name: Scancode Map, data type REG_BINARY
>* Data (it wants everything filled in in hex! sigh...)
>000000000000000002000000001d003a00000000
>
>And here are some key codes: these are in the data
>order needed to plug into my example above.
> Left Alt 38,00
> Right Alt 38,E0
> Left Ctrl 1D,00
> Right Ctrl 1D,E0
> Left Shift 2A,00
> Right Shift 46,00
> Caps Lock 3A,00
> Left Windows 5B,E0
> Right Windows 5C,E0
>
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