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A PowerShell script to swap the Caps Lock and Ctrl keys
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| # Script found at https://superuser.com/a/997448 | |
| # Swap details found at https://www.mavjs.org/post/swap-ctrl-and-capslock-on-windows | |
| # Improvement provided by Davido264 in comment below | |
| $hexified = "00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,3a,00,1d,00".Split(',') | % { "0x$_"}; | |
| $kbLayout = 'HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout'; | |
| $scancodeMap = Get-ItemProperty -Path $kbLayout -Name "Scancode Map" -ErrorAction Ignore | |
| if ( -not $scancodeMap ) | |
| { | |
| New-ItemProperty -Path $kbLayout -Name "Scancode Map" -PropertyType Binary -Value ([byte[]]$hexified); | |
| } | |
| else | |
| { | |
| Set-ItemProperty -LiteralPath $kbLayout -Name "Scancode Map" -Value ([byte[]]$hexified); | |
| } |
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Nice one! Thanks @Davido264