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re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping'
Saturday, July 3, 2004 at 3:28 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Stephen Ferris
(1 messages posted)
John, you posted this over two years back, but thank!
My laptop cntrl key went dead (over use). It was to be a big job to repair the keyboard
membrane and expensive. Instead I've swapped cap lock and cntrl using your code.
I've swapped key tops too and i'm back on the road.
Cheers!
Stephen
On Friday, April 5, 2002 at 1:58 pm, John Hendrickx wrote:
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>The following works in XP, should work in win2k as well:
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>----------------------------------------------------------
>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.
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>Hope this helps,
>John Hendrickx
>(formerly Mad Mackx)
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