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re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping'
Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 9:04 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rick Alber
(1 messages posted)
You might want to try out a $10 key capslock remapping program called anticapslock.
It's available at www.orionsoft.cz/anticapslock/ and I've found that it works on
Windows XP.
On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 5:40 am, Irene wrote:
>I just found the solution to this one. I had tried the registry fix of adding an
>Attributes key to the French keyboard, but that didn't work.
>I wasn't at all interested in spending $65 on software to fix what I considered
to
>be a bug, so I kept looking. I finally found the slap-my-forehead-and-say-"how-silly-of-me"
>solution. Here it is:
>
>- Open Control Panel
>- Double-click on Regional and Language Options
>- Click on the Languages tab
>- Choose Details
>- Under French (France) keyboard, choose French
>- Click on Key Settings
>- Under to turn off CAPS LOCK, choose Press the SHIFT key
>- Click on OK, OK.
>
>So there it is, folks. Microsoft configures the French keyboard incorrectly by default,
>and we users have to reconfigure it. But at least this reconfiguration is provided
>for by Microsoft.
>Irene
>
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