| Grex > Micros > #245: Capslock key causes great pain and heartache. |
| Capslock key causes great pain and heartache. | 
Jan 17 19:59 UTC 2002 |
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Jan 17 21:19 UTC 2002 |
There are older keyboards around that work in the newer computers and have the Control key where the Control key should be. I have the same problem.
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Jan 17 21:35 UTC 2002 |
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Jan 18 06:21 UTC 2002 |
I've heard of such a utility of UN*X, but not for Win2K.
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Jan 18 17:05 UTC 2002 |
What you need is a keymap editor. Then you can change this to your heart's content. I'm sure one exists for Windows but I wouldn't know where to look. My laptop came with a utility that swaps the Caps Lock and Ctrl key assignments. (The key caps are the same size, conveniently.)
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Jan 19 02:23 UTC 2002 |
Such utilities used to be fairly readily available in DOS/Win3 days. I question whether any of those would work with W2k, but a web search might be worth trying.
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Jan 21 14:52 UTC 2002 |
Probably not, but every Windows since Windows 95 has had a scheme for switching between various keymaps. All you really need is a way to create a keymap file with the mapping you want, then you can load it from the Keyboard control panel. The tricky thing under Windows 95/98 was there was actually *two* keymaps. One for Windows, one for DOS. If you loaded a keymap in Windows to, say, make your keyboard a Dvorak layout, you'd find it still had the standard layout inside DOS windows unless you loaded a different DOS keymap as well! I'm guessing that Win2K won't have this problem since the DOS/Windows dividing line has been erased.