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I currently work for Intel as the Lead Application Developer on Intel's Corporate Product Catalog.

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Feb

2006

Remapping Toshiba Laptop Keys with SharpKeys

posted by Eric Appel 1 Comments

It has always bothered me that the makers of my Toshiba Satellite laptop thought it was a good idea to put the `~ key where the Windows key belongs on my keyboard. The Windows Key Shortcuts are some of my favorite shortcuts in Windows. Toshiba's placement of the Windows key in the upper right corner of the keyboard severely limited my access to the key. Enter RandyRants' SharpKeys. SharpKeys allows me to easily remap the Windows key to be where it should be. I simply remapped the `~ key to be the Windows key and the Windows key to be the `~ key. Now I have easy access to all of my Windows key shortcuts again. If you care to know, SharpKeys works by adding specific registry entries in Windows to indicate what keys need to be remapped.

UPDATE: I also want to add that SharpKeys is not specific to Toshiba laptops. It is able to remap keys for any Windows keyboard.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:20:34 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I like KeyTweak (http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/). Unfortunately, none of these scancode remappers work very well with my Apple Pro Keyboard.

Matthew Flook

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