Windows – How to remap keys for a remote desktop session in Windows

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My main machine runs Windows 7 and has Caps Lock mapped to Control.

When I remote to this computer from other machines (particularly ones that I do not manage or have administrator access to), their keyboard's Caps Lock does not work as a Control.

My question is if there is anyway around this? (One side note is I'd really like to stay away from running AutoHotKey if there are other options).

Best Answer

You can download CapstoCtrl from SysInternals.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897578

Ctrl2cap is a kernel-mode device driver that filters the system's keyboard class driver in order to convert caps-lock characters into control characters. People like myself that migrated to NT from UNIX are used to having the control key located where the caps-lock key is on the standard PC keyboard, so a utility like this is essential for our editing well-being.

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