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On Windows 8, I noticed that the keyboard shortcuts for doing stuff is quite centered around the windows key. An example would be win + type, to search/launch applications.
The problem is, that I do not have a Windows key on my keyboard. So is there any way to change these keyboard shortcuts? Preferably to ctrl + alt?
Morgan Bengtsson
Posted 2012-09-12T18:57:15.440
Reputation: 191
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Download SharpKeys (also can be found here) and remap a less frequently used key to Win. On an older machine with an otherwise fantastic 101-key PS/2 keyboard (that's 15 years old and going strong!), I used the right Alt key for this purpose, but the choice is yours. Be careful however and don't remap any important keys!
Edit: Similar apps, but personally I've been using SharpKeys for ages over multiple Windows versions, and it just works.
Karan
Posted 2012-09-12T18:57:15.440
Reputation: 51 857
When I click the first (official) SharpKeys link you provided I get ESET NOD32 Antivirus - Access denied - Access to the web page was blocked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. The web page is on the list of websites with potentially dangerous content. – amiregelz – 2012-10-27T22:04:02.030
@amiregelz: Weird, was fine earlier but now I am getting that message as well. Maybe the domain got hacked/hijacked or something, because otherwise I have been accessing it for years now and can't see the developer knowingly adding malware. Thanks for the heads up though, people should definitely use the second link for now. – Karan – 2012-10-27T22:43:15.763
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You should be able to edit the Scancode Mapping in the registry.
Warning: Extremely difficult.
The scancode for the Windows key is E0 5B.
You can use this utility to generate the registry key.
SLaks
Posted 2012-09-12T18:57:15.440
Reputation: 7 596
+1 Nice, first time I saw that method, learn something new every day here on SU. – Moab – 2012-10-30T20:12:40.497
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Make your Caps Lock key trigger the Windows Logo key instead.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,5c,e0,3a,00,00,00,00,00
double click to import into registry
reboot
from: http://mattshaw.org/news/window-map-caps-lock-to-windows-key/
Zack Peterson
Posted 2012-09-12T18:57:15.440
Reputation: 1 535
I wonder which keyboard in that era doesn't have the Windows/Super/Meta/Command... key? – phuclv – 2018-10-24T08:01:14.640
You can but it will break other functions using the Win key in Windows 8, some of which are nice. – Moab – 2012-10-30T20:20:41.693
Cr-48's don't have a win key so it may well be broken anyways :) – Matthew Wong – 2012-10-30T20:26:52.427
As a note, it seems that pressing Ctrl + Esc corresponds to pressing the Win key. – Morgan Bengtsson – 2012-12-14T21:31:23.793