re: XP Keyboard remap question

[Otis Port oport@xxxxxxxx]

Bill,
  Intes KeyChange is a keyboard remapper that can handle every key, and other such beasts exist, at
least for Win flavors up to NT4 and W98.
  Check the ZDnet download section and search for "keyboard remap*" (pretty sure that's
where I found a few utilities that would remap virutally the entire keyboard; only two I kept were a
caps lock/ctrl swapper and a keyboard add-in for Word97 that mimi
  If you can't find KeyChange there, try www.restreminder.com/keychange/

  Messing with the Registry is not for the faint of heart. A mistake could mean you'd have to
reinstall to recover. So first, be SURE to export the registry to another partition, or do a full
backup.

Open the registry editor and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\KeyBoard Layout

(note: KeyBoard Layout, not KeyBoard Layouts)

Then create a new binary value by right-clicking on the KeyBoard
Layout entry in the left window and selecting New\Binary Value

A new entry will appear in the right window called "New Value #1",
rename this to "Scancode Map" (no quotes).

Right click on the new entry you just created, select the Modify
entry and you'll see a window with a Value name field and a large
text area (named Value data:) with the value 0000 in it.

Click on the 0000 and a text prompt will appear.
Then type the following values in this area:

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
(result will be: 0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00)

At this point, a new row will be created with the label
0008

Now add these values:

03 00 00 00 1d 00 3a 00

and a new row will appear with the label
0010

Type in these values:

3a 00 1d 00 00 00 00 00

A new row will appear with the label 0018...ignore it.

Review the text area; it should look like this:

0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0008 03 00 00 00 1d 00 3a 00
0010 3a 00 1d 00 00 00 00 00
0018

Press the ok key, and voila! you have modified the scancode for your
system. Close the registry and reboot your machine, and your CapsLock
and Ctrl keys will be swapped.

  -otis