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re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP
Friday, May 2, 2003 at 1:22 pm
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Posted by P.C. (3 messages posted)


Okay, that last message from me requires an update!

Removing the *.DLL reference removed the functionality altogether, but leaving it 
in there made *random* remappings all around my keyboard. Sometimes "C" and "W" wouldn't 
work at all, then a minute later, "1" (one) and "T" wouldn't work at all. Strange 
behavior.

I did yet another web-search today and came upon:
http://prestonhunt.com/m/2002/remap_capslock/remap_capslock.html

In his file: Remap Caps Lock to Windows Key.REG
I modified - {Caps Lock}:

"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,5B,E0,3A,00,00,00,00,00

to become - Right {Alt}:

"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,5B,E0,38,E0,00,00,00,00

I merely had to replace: 3A,00 with 38,E0

{ WinKey } = 5B,E0 | {Caps Lock} = 3A,00
Left {Alt} = 38,00 | Right {Alt} = 38,E0

REFERENCE:
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,65157,00.asp




Written in response to:
re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (P.C.: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 8:19 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Nathan: Friday, June 13, 2003 at 5:54 am)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Charlie: Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 12:16 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Keith Conover: Fri, Feb 22, 2002, 6:57 am)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (David Gee: Fri, Mar 1, 2002, 4:28 pm)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Surfer: Sat, Apr 27, 2002, 11:25 am)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (James: Wed, Sep 4, 2002, 3:43 pm)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Artyom: Fri, Sep 6, 2002, 3:40 am)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Artyom: Fri, Sep 6, 2002, 3:45 am)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Mike: Wed, Dec 24, 2003, 9:10 pm)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Thorsten Claus: Wed, Nov 13, 2002, 10:51 am)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Michael Bøcker-Larsen: Wed, Nov 20, 2002, 1:55 pm)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Mike McConkey: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 9:46 am)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Michael Bøcker-Larsen: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 8:08 am)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Karl Eklund: Sat, Jan 31, 2004, 3:30 pm)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (William: Thu, Apr 1, 2004, 11:43 pm)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Depherios: Thu, Apr 21, 2005, 1:41 am)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Steven Sashen: Thu, Jun 2, 2005, 12:11 pm)
*SOLVED: Swap Laptop's CTRL and Fn keys (Steve: Mon, May 28, 2007, 11:04 am)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (David Fife: Sat, Jan 11, 2003, 4:10 pm)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Richard Anderson: Wed, Apr 16, 2003, 6:16 pm)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (P.C.: Tue, Apr 29, 2003, 8:19 pm)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (P.C.: Fri, May 2, 2003, 1:22 pm)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Nathan: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 5:54 am)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (n.c.: Sun, Jun 22, 2003, 6:52 am)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Charlie: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 12:16 pm)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (luciano: Mon, Aug 18, 2003, 12:19 pm)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Rich Schreiner: Fri, Jul 4, 2003, 9:06 am)
-re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (drvono: Tue, Jan 10, 2006, 8:16 am)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (drvono: Fri, Jun 2, 2006, 6:42 am)
*re: Keyboard Remap in W2K/WinXP (Dennis W. Bulgrien: Fri, Jun 2, 2006, 6:55 am)
*RE: Keyboard Remap - Cool Utility! (John Collins: Tue, Oct 14, 2003, 11:53 am)
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