gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » sharp keys http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Keyboard Remapperhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/09/keyboard-remapper/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/09/keyboard-remapper/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:13:19 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9752 Keytweak is a keyword remapper that is compatible with all NT based versions of the Windows operating system including Windows XP, Windows Vista and even the soon to be released Windows 7. The main difference between Keytweak and Sharp Keys, the remap keyboard tool that we reviewed a week ago, is mainly the graphical user interface and the better aid that Keytweak is offering.

KeyTweak displays a full keyword plus specialty buttons in its interface. A click on a button on that virtual keyboard will display the current keyboard mapping of the key and the option to remap the key using a pulldown menu. One interesting and very helpful feature of the software program is that it is showing the default keys of the selected keys.

This means that it is possible to remap keys and undo the changes easily by either remapping the key to the default one again or by clicking on the restore Default button in the lower half of the interface.

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Another option provided by the keyboard remapper is to disable a key completely. Could be used to disable the Windows keys or the Caps Lock key. The specialty buttons section contains buttons for many multimedia and specialty buttons that are available on several keyboards. It is possible to remap those keys as well.

Keytweak comes with a teaching mode that can be used to remap keys as well. It works by simply pressing two keys on the keyboard with the option to remap key 1 to key 2. The main benefit of Keytweak is the visual representation of the keyboard and that it is easy to restore the keyboard defaults. All remapped keys are underlined in the program interface.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/09/keyboard-remapper/feed/ 2 Remap Keyboardhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/02/remap-keyboard/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/02/remap-keyboard/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:28:24 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=9525 If you look at your computer’s keyboard you see keys that you use a lot, keys that you use seldom and keys that you have not used once in your life. Unless pressing the key accidentally would count. Keys that fall in the last category are the Shift-Lock key and probably keys like Sleep, Scroll Lock or End. It is safe to say that many users do not even have a clue about the function of these keys.

Remapping keys on the computer keyboard describes the process of changing the behavior of a key permanently. Sharp Keys is a light weight portable software that writes the remapped keys to the Windows Registry which essentially means that the changes are active after the next reboot or log out.

Sharp Keys supports 104 keys that can be remapped on the computer keyboard. This includes all the lesser used keys like the ones mentioned above but also all general keys like the letters and digits. The software was able to identify several of the multimedia keys on a Logitech keyboard as well.

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The main advantage of Sharp Keys over similar software programs is that Sharp Key uses the native Windows functionality to remap the keys. This means that the software does not have to be running in the background after the changes have been made.

Remapped keys on the keyboard can be deleted all the time which will write the original information to the Windows Registry again.

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