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Over the years, I accept written and re-written about a technique that allows you to remap the keys on a Windows 10 keyboard using a tool found in an one-time Windows Server Resource Kit. While that technique nevertheless works, with the latest release of Windows x PowerToys, there is at present an fifty-fifty amend fashion to remap the keys on a keyboard.

Version 0.eighteen.0 of Windows 10 PowerToys includes a new app called Keyboard Manager. This utility allows you to remap keys and key combinations on your keyboard with just a few clicks of the mouse. This how-to tutorial shows you how to access Keyboard Director and and so use it to remap keys.

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Using PowerToys Keyboard Manager to remap keys

Keyboard Manager is role of the latest set of Windows 10 PowerToys. Download and install the latest version of PowerToys and launch the application. Using the left-hand navigation bar (Figure A), select the Keyboard Managing director tab and and then flip the switch to the "on" position.

Figure A

To remap a unmarried key on your Windows 10 keyboard, click the Remap a fundamental button. A new screen will pop up (Effigy B), and then you'll be asked to enter a keystroke that you lot would like to alter, followed past the new key you would similar it to represent.

Effigy B

Equally an example, if yous are decumbent to inadvertently pressing the Caps Lock primal, you can remap that key to something else and move Caps Lock to a safer spot on the keyboard. In Figure C, we are remapping the Caps Lock key to exist Left-Shift and moving Caps Lock to be the right-hand Windows key. Click OK to complete the process.

Figure C

At present, the Keyboard Manager shows what keys accept been remapped (Figure D), so y'all can run across at a glance what you accept washed in the past.

Effigy D

You can also remap common keyboard shortcut combinations using Keyboard Managing director. In Figure E, nosotros volition remap Break (Alt-Scroll Lock) to be Paste Text Only (CTRL-Alt-V). Click OK to complete the process.

Figure E

Your remapped keys and cardinal combinations volition remain in result every bit long every bit the Keyboard Manager is turned on and Windows 10 PowerToys is running. As a applied affair, this caveat means yous volition probable want to prepare PowerToys to automatically run during the Windows ten boot process.

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Using the left-hand navigation bar in Windows 10 PowerToys over again, select the General and then flip the Run at Startup switch to the "on" position, equally shown in Figure F.

Figure F

At present, when you commencement or restart Windows 10, PowerToys will automatically start and run in the background, ensuring your keyboard remapping remains in identify.