re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping'
Tuesday, November 26, 2002 at 8:39 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Pat
(1 messages posted)
Would it be possible to remap the ESC key so that it will not disconnect you in Remote
Assistance? I have a DOS app that uses the ESC key and when I am using RA I get disconnected
when I am working in the DOS app and I hit the ESC key.
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 11:09 am, Craig Leres wrote:
>Here's how I disabled the caps lock on my IBM X22 Windows XP system.
>My solution was to map caps lock to left shift. As previously noted,
>this should also work for Windows NT and and Windows 2000.
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>Scan Code Mapper for Windows is documented here:
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>http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/input/w2kscan-map.asp
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>This page doesn't give the scan code for left shift; I found that
>here:
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>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q59131
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>Here are the scan codes given on this page:
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>| ctrl | 0x1D |
>| alt | 0x38 |
>| left shift | 0x2A |
>| right shift | 0x36 |
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>The map value is as follows:
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>| 00000000 |
> header version (zero) |
>| 00000000 |
> header flags (zero) |
>| 00000002 |
> number of entries (including terminator) |
>| 003A002A |
> map caps lock (0x3A) to left shift (0x2A) |
>| 00000000 |
> null terminator map |
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>If you want to just disable caps lock, map it to zero (0x00) instead
>of left shift (0x2A).
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>Converting these values to little endian you have:
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>00000000 00000000 0200000000 2A003A00 00000000
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>Now fire up regedit and go to:
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>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
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>Create a REG_BINARY entry called Scancode Map with the value
>calculated above. After you enter the values, the "modify" window
>should look like this:
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>Value Name:
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>Scancode Map
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>Value data:
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>0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>0008 02 00 00 00 2A 00 3A 00
>0010 00 00 00 00
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>Exit regedit, reboot and test.
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