Peter Schneider


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Switch Right Windows and Right Alt Key

I've just bought a Apple Keyboard (USB) and wanted to switch the key mapping of the right windows and right alt key..

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,5c,e0,38,e0,38,e0,5c,e0,\
  00,00,00,00

To swap both the left and the right Windows and Alt Key use:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,07,00,00,00,37,e0,64,00,5b,e0,38,00,\
  38,00,5b,e0,5c,e0,38,e0,38,e0,5c,e0,47,e0,63,e0,00,00,00,00

Reboot or log off afterwards.

Posted: Mar 13 2008, 08:42 AM by pschneider | with 3 comment(s)
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Jan said:

Hey man, lovely tip, I've managed to find your site through a google search. I have a MBP and am working within the Windows environment (shoot me, UT3 not out for Macs... yet). Make the story short, I work in Maya, and the Alt key is your favorite there as you use it for viewport navigation (hold then use mouse). I keep pressing Apple's command key (which on PC keyboards is actually Alt) and it's getting rather annoying, now I am slowly getting used to moving my thumb over to the left, but that is uncomfortable for me, can you help out?

# April 1, 2008 12:08 AM

pschneider said:

Hi Jan!

You might be interested in this one:

www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys

greetings, Peter

# April 5, 2008 6:43 PM

Jorg said:

Hello Peter,

thanks much for this tweek. I had a look at sharpkeys before but could not figure it out.

But after loading the reg file sharpkeys shows the new mappings.

You did not mention that you added F13 as printscreen key. Very nice.

Regards

Jorg

# July 7, 2009 10:40 AM
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