re:Your Keyboard Mapping alternatives.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Posted by geek9pm
(903 messages posted)
Good idea. Many users have a need to remap the keyboard for specific needs. In Europe,
for example, there are many languages that use modified roman keyboard to represent
letters of their alphabet. A Goole search shows may programs to alter the map.
Be aware that some of these are very old and may not work in XP. And are not to be
used in Vista.
Often the reason for using any of these is just to reduce the annoyance of a few
keys. One key many hate is the Caps Lock. Some prefer to just lock it out altogether!
My I suggest that is overkill for just on or two keys that annoy you. There is a
suitable hardware alternative and does not require any investment in more equipment.
Yes, I know I am not supposed to talk about hardware on this forum. But this is
so simple and can save you for possible bad third-party software.
Furthermore, the hardware alternative does not need to be approved by Microsoft and
does not have any virus or Trojan issues. Rather than going int a long lecture, allow
me to just show you a picture of the "Caps Lock Key disable alternative using
common available hardware resources." Click on picture below.
http://geek9pm.com/caps_lock.jpg
Oh, forgot to mention the process can be fully reversed in about 7 seconds and does
not require a reboot in all current Windows versions, even Vista!
Geek9pm 
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