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I want to remap the Home-key on my keyboard so that both the Home- and Calc-key on my laptop's keyboard executes as Home - mostly because the Calc-key sits where the Home-key was on my previous laptop, and I really don't need a new calc.exe instance for every time I want to go to the top of a webpage, etc.
I found this answer which helped me find the registry-entry I need to change, but I am uncertain what I should change it to in order to to have it execute as the Home-key. Can somewhere here give me a pointer?
eirikdaude
Posted 2015-04-22T11:07:34.007
Reputation: 821
That registry entry is for executing programs only, not key remapping. Try using SharpKeys to remap Calc to Home. If that doesn't work then other solutions will need to be looked at.
– Karan – 2015-04-22T19:05:05.287Ah, that's a shame. I was hoping to avoid having to install any software to achieve this. Hmm, if I delete that entry, will the button at least do nothing? @Karan – eirikdaude – 2015-04-22T19:08:39.977
SharpKeys is portable (download the ZIP) and just a GUI frontend that makes working with Windows' own scancode mapping mechanism easy. If it detects those two keys and works then you can simply delete the EXE and the registry edit it makes will remain in effect. Let me know if it helped. Edit: No, I don't think deleting that reg key will work but you can always back it up and try. – Karan – 2015-04-22T19:12:26.443
Thanks for your help - I'll give it a go once I get back to work tomorrow, and tell you how it worked :) @Karan – eirikdaude – 2015-04-22T19:13:51.953
A small tip: if SharpKeys doesn't list those two keys by default then try the "Type a key" feature. Good luck. :) – Karan – 2015-04-22T19:15:50.193