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Yes. What I can't understand is why this extra diagnostic information is not available with a keyboard shortcut, rather than with a change to the registry. If y
by spuz 8y ago
Yes. What I can't understand is why this extra diagnostic information is not available with a keyboard shortcut, rather than with a change to the registry. If you get a blue screen on boot, you typically have no way to alter the registry. Holding shift or something would make much more sense.
- Avery3R 8y agoIt's inconvenient, but you could boot into a WinPE(recovery mode, or installation media) environment, and edit the registry from inside there.
- tareqak 8y agoSomething similar is how remapping the Capslock key in Windows to another one has to be done via registry edit instead of a Control Panel setting. Given the renewed drive from Microsoft to become the developer’s OS of choice over the last five to ten years, choosing to not offer a more a accessible solution than a registry edit seems contrary to that drive for me.
- HeWhoLurksLate 8y agoHonestly, it's probably something that just got overlooked. I've only ever hated my caps lock key enough on a keyboard to rebind it once.
- lbotos 8y agoSeems like you aren't using Vim Then. Caps to escape is a common binding. It's not about hate, it's about ease of modal editing.
- bscphil 8y agoAfter using a Chromebook for a while I discovered how much I love having my Caps Lock key remapped to launching the desktop search tool, and now I do it on all my computers. E.g. Milou for KDE, I think the MacOS one is called Spotlight.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoI use caps-to-ctrl. Ctrl is so common that not being able to hit caps lock for it is now a major usability issue for me on other people's computers.
- cheschire 8y agoOlder Sun keyboards used to have control in that location labelled by default. I remember buying a happy hacker keyboard back in the early 2000's that also had that as the default configuration, with a dip switch to flip it.
- TomK32 8y agoI've mapped it to switching the keyboard locale on my linux desktop.
- bootlooped 8y agoRemapping caps lock to "app" has helped me a lot. It allows me to bring up the right click context menu without touching the mouse.
- anticensor 8y agoWindows Input API is multi-leveled and toplevel one sends key combos and characters only. Because keyboard drivers are system-level (although configurable per-user), you can only remap via system reconfiguration, which makes sense.