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In the case of most Fn keys, they are interpretted by the hardware and never get passed onto the OS, no matter how they appear to work. Q: Why can't I remap my Fn key on my keyboard?Ī: Some keys simply just never get to Windows.

#ONE KEY ON KEYBOARD NOT WORKING LAPTOP WINDOWS#

The remapping technology that Windows uses to remap your keys isn't aware of your mouse. Q: Can I remap a mouse click to a new key?Ī: Sorry, but no. That said, the Microsoft PowerToys tool does offer this functionality - you can learn more about their tool here: Microsoft PowerToys. For example, you can remap Ctrl or C but you can't remap Ctrl+C to another key. SharpKeys only remaps whole keys rather than a modified key. Q: Can I remap a combination of keys to one key?Ī: Sadly, no.

Protect you from yourself - if you disable your DEL key and can’t login because Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn’t work now, you’ll have to reformat.

Support multiple mappings for different users - the Windows key being tweaked is for an entire machine.

Logitech’s volume buttons or most Fn keys

Support certain hardware keys that never make it to Windows - e.g.

it will not support an attempt to remap Ctrl+C to the F5 key

Map multiple key presses to one key - e.g.

you can swap Left Windows with Left Control and vice versa

Allow you to swap two keys with each other - e.g.

Force you to look for the Left or Right ALT key in the list of available keys because Type Key cannot scan for ALT.

you could remap every key on a keyboard to the letter Q

Remap more than one key to one single key - e.g.

Map an entire key to any other key - e.g.

Close SharpKeys and either log out (and back in) or reboot to enforce the new mappings.

Click 'Write to registry' and wait for a confirmation that the registry was successfully updated.

Add a new key mapping or edit an existing one.

If there are any errors reported, please check the Troubleshooting section below

Launch SharpKeys, by selecting its icon from the Start menu.

#ONE KEY ON KEYBOARD NOT WORKING LAPTOP INSTALL#

If you are using WinGet and want to install the MSI from GitHub

#ONE KEY ON KEYBOARD NOT WORKING LAPTOP ZIP FILE#

Note: that for ARM versions of Windows, please use the ZIP file to get the EXE: the MSI is looking for 圆4/x86.

#ONE KEY ON KEYBOARD NOT WORKING LAPTOP MANUAL#

Install Manual via web or Microsoft StoreĬlick the Releases button in the header above or get the same MSI from the Microsoft Store. The list of keys that are included in the application are from most of the US-based keyboards that I've used over the years and is not guaranteed to be 100% complete for world keyboards.

SharpKeys is not responsible for any of the keyboard remapping functionality - it simply exposes a Registry key that controls how Windows remaps keys and has been available to us since Windows 2000.

The more I started working with other keyboard, the more I wanted to have this ability to map other keys across my keyboard, but working with the Hex numbers and having too look up scan codes could be painful. For me, this meant that I told my computer to treat Caps Lock as if it was a shift key, which it now does. There's a little used registry hack that allows you to remap keys across a keyboard. What's a keyboard mapping? How many times a day do you accidentally hit cAPS lOCK BY MISTAKE AND END UP HAVING TO GO BAck and retype stuff? For me it was at least once an hour - in fact, I used to pop off the Caps Lock key so I wouldn't hit it anymore, but I found something better in Windows XP, as well as 2000, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. This is something that I've thrown together to help people out with their keyboard mappings.

Included in the application is a list of common keyboard keys and a Type Key feature to automatically recognize most keyboard keys. SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.

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