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Posted on 07-07-08 02:22:22 AM Link | Quote
So I was staring at my keyboard today, and it occurred to me that I haven't used my caps lock key in months, maybe years. I also got to thinking how useless it was and the wasted space that could otherwise be used for something a bit more useful.

So here's the point of this thread: What can I do with it? I'm thinking I'd like to remap it to another key, or maybe even a key combination if that's possible. I just don't have any good ideas of what to remap it to. Has anyone here remapped their caps lock key? If so, to what?

The best idea I've had so far is to remap it to the "browser forward" key that appears on some keyboards. I regularly use Backspace to go back, but I don't currently have a one-key press for forward.

Suggestions?

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Posted on 07-07-08 04:05:22 AM Link | Quote
I think the problem with mapping Caps Lock to anything is that it still acts like Caps Lock. It's built into the keyboard controller or something.

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Posted on 07-07-08 04:10:40 PM Link | Quote
Buy a keyboard with programmable keys or launch bottle rockets is my two.

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Posted on 07-07-08 06:39:11 PM Link | Quote
Theoretically you might be able to find (or download) a program that remaps it and forces it to be off, but that would just be a resource drainer...

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Posted on 07-16-08 11:34:46 PM Link | Quote

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*Pries Caps Lock key off his keyboard and eats it*

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Posted on 07-16-08 11:57:05 PM Link | Quote
Caps -> Shift

Very useful.

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Metal_Man88
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You can also tell it to turn caps lock off whenever you use the shift key, somewhere buried in the text services Control Panel thingy.

This is only useful if you intend to disable the windows key with a registry hack, making it impossible to then also disable the caps lock by that website's method...

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