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| 82266 | 2002-09-23 06:41:00 | is there a way to change the keyboard mapping in win98se and 2k i never use the right windows key so i was thinking of assining it with something like force restart or something any ideas? |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 82267 | 2002-09-23 23:35:00 | You could try the keyboard remapper in MS Kernel Toys. Kernel Toys is supposed to be for Windows 95 only, but reports (including Livingston & Straub)suggest the remapper at least can be used with Win98. You can get the package from here (www.microsoft.com) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 82268 | 2002-09-23 23:56:00 | yes thanx i've tried that but the function is very limited is there something els like that which has more powerful functions? |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 82269 | 2002-09-24 02:22:00 | Most remapping exercises seem to involve swapping key functions, ie swap between caps lock and ctrl. This involves editing the registry and knowing what the key scan codes are. This is onesite (www.pcworld.com) that gives some info on how to do it. You would have to do a search to get the hexadecimal key scan codes to do that sort of thing However, what you want to do as far as I can see is to remap a key so that it assigns a text message to a key, that text message being a batch file so that it would run a command like: c:\windows\rundll32.exe user, exitwindows That would shut down windows. One was able to do this in DOS using ansi.sys, an "Escape" sequence, and the ASCII key codes to reassign keys, but I dont know how you would do this in Windows. Im sure some Windows guru will know how to do it :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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