[geeks] grudging praise for a Micosoft product

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:23:33PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> I rather not remap, but that's not the issue.  For one thing, I can  
> never get the keymapping to work quite right in Windows.  Remapping in  
> Windows is a fairly high level function, so you end up with some  
> software honoring it, and some not.
> 

Not really, there is a remaping facility at the scan code level.

I can't remember how to do it, but you can easily remap control and
caps lock and (almost) everything uses it. A quick STFW for 
"windows scan code remaping" should do what you want.

Look at: 

	http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/w2kscan-map.mspx

and:

	http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1040196,00.html

Don't forget the warning in:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1057334775


Geoff.

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