Posted on 01/06/2022 7:12:36 AM PST by daniel1212
Broken keyboard keys are quite a common occurrence on laptops and netbooks. Although it’s not a terrible problem if the keypress still registers without the key, it is quite difficult if a common key doesn’t work at all. Maybe there’s keys you keep hitting by mistake such as Caps Lock, or would just like a certain key to be in a more convenient location. Or, there might be a key on your keyboard you never seem to use or need.
In all those situations, a simple solution would be to change the keyboard keys to do something else...or run a shortcut/hotkey utility.
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1. Microsoft PowerToys For Windows 10
The old utility suite for Windows XP and 95 called PowerToys was resurrected in 2019 for Windows 10 users...
Open PowerToys and enable the Keyboard Manager. Click “Remap a key” and choose the key to change (Key column) and then what to change it to (“Mapped to” column). You can either find the key in the dropdown menu or type it in manually. Map a key to “Undefined” to disable it entirely.... Read More: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/make-certain-keys-on-a-keyboard-to-act-like-other-keys/?unapproved=1191718&moderation-hash=caf69f24b993b428981030a251ac7275#comment-1191718
Download Microsoft PowerToys For Windows 10
2. SharpKeys
SharpKeys is an easy tool to use but it lacks a keyboard interface layout which could make it quicker to identify the keys you want to change. The main interface is pretty empty to start with and only the edits you have made will show up here...
Use the Load/Save keys buttons to save the list of key changes so they can be loaded again later on. SharpKeys is available as a zipped portable version or an MSI setup installer, the .NET Framework 4 needs to be installed for Windows 7 users.
Download SharpKeys
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3. MapKeyboard
MapKeyboard is a portable and tiny keyboard remapper that is under 100KB in size....
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4. Key Mapper
Key Mapper is an easy to use and intuitive tool that can remap a key or disable it completely. To disable a key all you have to do is click on it and drag it off the program’s window, which will then turn the key a brownish color.
Read More: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/make-certain-keys-on-a-keyboard-to-act-like-other-keys/?unapproved=1191718&moderation-hash=caf69f24b993b428981030a251ac7275#comment-1191718
5. Keytweak...
As KeyTweak is effectively abandonware and only one executable and pdf help file, we’ve extracted the setup installer and zipped the files to make it portable.
Download KeyTweak Portable
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6. Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator...
Windows 10 requires the .NET framework version 3 to be installed.
Download Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator
7. RemapKeyboard
This last tool is a portable standalone executable and only 79KB in size....
Like all other tools using the registry scan code method, you have to log off or restart the system for the changes to take effect.
Oh hell yeah, I was 30 or so in 1982 when the IBM-PC was born. They were called "TSR" (Terminate and Stay Resident) programs. I even wrote a little one myself, using the MSDOS "DEBUG" program to enter it by hand in Assembler. That was back when ".COM" meant a DOS program, not a domain name. LOL
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