{"id":1088,"date":"2018-01-15T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/busix.com\/docs\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2021-07-28T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T18:03:56","slug":"canadian-keyboards-and-the-tiny-left-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/busix.com\/docs\/canadian-keyboards-and-the-tiny-left-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Keyboards and the Tiny Left Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’ve bought a laptop in Canada, odds are you’ve pressed the \\ key instead of [shift] more than once a day.  Personally, if I had a dollar for every time I’ve done this on my laptop I’d never have to pay for computer parts again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zut Alors! Quell Dommage! Une Petit Key!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you’re running a Windows install, you can tweak the registry so that both the left [shift] and the pipe\/backslash key are remapped to [shift] only, making it essentially a full-sized shift key.  While you can go and do this manually, I suggest running  SharpKeys instead.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s no installation required, and it’s just a matter of downloading the ZIP file, extracting it, then running SharpKeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, Click “Add”, then “Type Key” on the next window that comes up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Running SharpKeys to remap a key<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next, press the key that you want to copy.  In the example of the French keyboard, press the [shift] button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Press a key<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Repeat on the right-hand side, but use the key that you don’t want to use anymore.\u00a0 That’s right: once it’s remapped it will be exceedingly difficult to return its original function,<\/strong> since you can’t press it to use as an example.\u00a0 It will likely return a “key unknown”, which is fine because this program was written by an American so they wouldn’t think about French keys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you’ve selected both keys, press OK<\/strong> and return to the main menu.  Click on “Write to Registry” and reboot.  When you log back in, you can use either of those keys on the left as a [shift] button, even for entering your password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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