
We also know how they hardly ever regard such advice. We all know how kids are taught not to take candy from strangers. zip file I still remember the name of - ‘Candy’ (not that I knew what this word meant in English at the time). As you can imagine, the main and probably only thing I was interested about regarding computers was, well… games.īack then the only place I could find them was my internet provider’s public FTP (a FTP, which all people using my internet provider’s services were allowed to access and share files with each other).

The story dates back to the early 2000s when I was pretty much a toddler making his first steps in the behind-the-keyboard world. I would not call it a pleasant experience, but I think it is worth sharing. I still remember the first time I’ve had an interaction with remaps. This blog post will show Windows users how it can easily be done with the use of a free software and will take a look at what this software actually does to make it happen. This piece of software can help you be a little more productive while trying, but of course, you can always play a prank to your friend by switching the keys around, but this is something I will not be covering.Changing or disabling the function of keys is something I bet many computer users have wanted to be able to do at some point. Special keyboard’s keys that are not original to Windows are not supported.įor this tool to work correctly you’ll need Windows NT or greater, Windows 7 is well supported and it works in Windows 8 too (unofficially).You cannot switch two keys with each other, e.g., R and T with T and R.

You cannot map multiple keys like shortcuts, e.g., Ctrl+V to the F6 function key.Keep in mind there are several things that SharpKeys won’t do, for example: Click the Write to Registry and finally you’ll need to either log out your current Windows session or restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

Click the Addbutton and from the list on the left select the key you want to map, then from the list on the right select the key you want to map the key to, and click OK.ģ. Once you launched a dialog box will appear, click OKto continue.Ģ. Here is an example on how to swap two keys:ġ. Warning: Make sure that you backup the Windows Registry before using this utility, because modification of the Windows Registry is involved.
