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re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping'
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 at 11:02 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Johann Kok
(1 messages posted)
Thank you, the information was very helpfull. Now I just wish I can do something
similar in Win98 (which I use at home). I loaded the kernel tools, but it only works
half-way: it only allows me to remap the right Win key to the Ctrl key and even when
I do that it actually remaps the left Win key to the left Ctrl key.
I hate the Win keys and all I want to do is to remap the Win keys on both sides of
the keyboard to their respective Ctrl keys.
On Friday, April 5, 2002 at 1:58 pm, John Hendrickx wrote:
>The following works in XP, should work in win2k as well:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout];
>"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,1D,00,38,00,38,00,1D,00,1D,E0,38,E0,38,E0,1D,E0,00,00,00,00
>----------------------------------------------------------
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>Copy this to a text file and save it as "swapkeys.reg".
>Doubleclick to open it and confirm that you want to
>insert the contents in your registry.
>Reboot, and your Ctrl and Alt keys will be swapped.
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>The idea is to create a "Scancode Map" key in
>"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout".
>This should contain a series of hex codes on which keys to exchange
>(boy, do I ever miss the key remap program in the Win95 kernel toys.
>Or even Xmodmap under Unix!).
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>Details of how this works can be found at
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>http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,65157,pg,3,00.asp
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>and
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>http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/input/w2kscan-map.asp
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>The above article notes the shortcomings of this method:
>it applies to all users and all keyboards and requires rebooting.
>I'd appreciate information on a more elegant freeware or shareware solution.
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>A caveat with regard to the above registry hack: it swaps Ctrl and Alt,
>but the distinction between right and left Ctrl and Alt is lost
>(specifically, the lefthand Ctrl and Alt are recognized as
>the righthand Crlt and Alt).
>Usually no problem except perhaps for some games.
>Suggestions are of course welcome.
>
>Hope this helps,
>John Hendrickx
>(formerly Mad Mackx)
>
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