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Remapping a Windows Button

Although I have a windows key on my laptop, it’s in the upper right-hand corner of the keyboard.  Since I am used to the windows key being at the bottom of the keyboard, this makes it especially useless.  But, thanks to Scott Hanselman, I can remap the right-alt key to the windows key, giving me back the ability to use the windows key!  From his blog:

Here's a registry key that will remap the RIGHT-ALT to the Windows Key (save it as a .REG file):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,5B,E0,38,E0,00,00,00,00

Then reboot, and it should work. If you ever want to remove these mappings, delete the Scancode Map registry key that was created.

Posted 02-09-2004 12:15 PM by Darrell Norton

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Darrell wrote re: Remapping a Windows Button
on 02-09-2004 7:29 AM
Note that deleting the Scancode Map registry key will delete ALL keyboard mappings, in case you edited the above registry file to include multiple keyboard remappings (see Scott Hanselman's post).
Mark Bonafe wrote re: Remapping a Windows Button
on 02-09-2004 8:13 AM
There's a Windows key?!? ;)

Never used it. Can't imagine anyone using it enough to need a keyboard remapping. What do you use it for that makes it so important?
Darrell wrote re: Remapping a Windows Button
on 02-09-2004 9:42 AM
WinKey man! Assign keyboard shortcuts to the useless key! It's free, download it here (http://download.com.com/3000-2344-913626.html?tag=lst-0-1).

I'm big on keyboard shortcuts. Check out another post of mine here (http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/archive/2003/06/13/259.aspx).
Paul Bartlett wrote re: Remapping a Windows Button
on 02-09-2004 8:23 PM
There's also Chris Sells' Scancode Mapper: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#scancodeMapper
Darrell wrote re: Remapping a Windows Button
on 02-10-2004 12:15 AM
Paul - Very nice! I am downloading that program now!
Mark Bonafe wrote re: Remapping a Windows Button
on 02-10-2004 3:43 AM
Schweet!! Just installed WinKey and I'm already hooked. ;) Now I have a use for that stupid key.
Darrell wrote re: Remapping a Windows Button
on 02-10-2004 4:41 AM
Another one converted...
A. Punk. wrote re: Remapping a Windows Button
on 06-26-2004 6:32 AM