Re: F5--and everything went black...

[Matt Gumm <mattgumm@xxxxxxxx>]

There are programs that provide a GUI interface and then make the registry 
entries for you. That may be easier than editing the registry directly, especially 
if you only want to do one or two keys (ie, Caps Lock). For any who don't know, 
adjusting something in the registry requires a restart to be effective. 

I used KeyTweak, available for free here: http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/

A popular substitution among the WordStar folks is to swap the lower left 
CTRL & Caps Lock keys. I tried it, but found that I was too used the CTRL key combos. 

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 Original Message ----
From: Michael Norman 
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2007 4:39:48 PM
Subject: Re: F5--and everything went black...

At 07:06 AM 10/4/2007, Robert Holmgren wrote:
>that F5 "Windows screen refresh" -- was that unique to your
>manufacturer, or is that a Windows-wide thing?  I'm unaware of
>that.  How come nobody else is affected?

If you look here --

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/KeyboardSearch_XP.aspx

-- you'll find F5 listed as a standard Windows refresh key.

Apparently, it can be remapped. http://www.usnetizen.com/fix_capslock.html

Michael Norman