#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS INSTALL#
#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS UPDATE#
#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS MANUAL#
#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS CODE#
#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS PC#

Q: When I run SharpKeys 2.1.1 using Vista, I'm prompted to give SharpKeys Administrator permissions - why?Ī: The registry key that SharpKeys is setting for you is located a newly protected part of the Registry the only way that SharpKeys can edit that key is to be given Administrator rights temporarily.

#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS UPDATE#

Windows Update website for Windows 2000, Windows XP (Professional or Home), Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. NET Framework installed on it yet! You can get this from the

#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS PC#

Q: I installed SharpKeys on my computer and when I start the program up it says it can't find MSCOREE.DLL.Ī: Your PC doesn't have the 2.0 version of the.

Q: I tried to run your application, but I'm getting a huge message box, with an error that tells me it can't.

To do that, I will select the Set Key to be Menu and the To Key would be launching a file. Suppose I want to launch Google Chrome when I press the Menu key. At the bottom, you will see the option to remap keys. Prices start at 30$ per user.Īs soon as you launch the app, a tiny dialogue box opens. The only crux is that the free version lets you launch the application for 18 times and later you have to pay for it. You can set a custom application to be launched at the click of a button or remap a combination of keys to a single key. It not only performs all the basic functionalities like SharpKeys but also provides advanced trigger actions.

KeyExtender is a paid app that takes key remapping to next level. But the only problem with SharpKeys is that you cannot set the trigger action to be a custom application or a combination of multiple keys.

#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS MANUAL#

SharpKeys thus lets you indirectly modify the Scancode Map registry skipping all the manual work and trouble. The last entry is a default null entry and should be 00,00,00,00. I want no action to be performed on the key press so the action is null which means 00,00. So, the next 4 digit hex number would be 02,00,00,00. Now, I need to specify the scancode of Caps Lock key and the action to be performed when it’s pressed. Since we are only disabling Caps Lock key, we require 1 entry for specifying the Caps Lock key and a default null entry at the end which makes it 2. So, the first 4 entries 00,00,00,00 stands for header version and the next 4 entries 00,00,00,00 stands for flags. For the next entry, we have to specify the number of buttons we want to remap.

#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS CODE#

In our case, the Scan Code of the Caps Lock key is 3A. You can check Scancodes of all the keyboard buttons here. Better known as Scan Code and it is extremely important to know the scan code of the key you want to remap. Each button on the keyboard has a hexadecimal code attached to it. It’ll give you a list of keys along with how many times they were pressed. Let it run for a day or two and click on ‘Stop Monitoring’ to stop the app from counting your keys. Once, done, run the app, and select specific keys to monitor, or you can monitor all keys on your keyboard.

#HOW TO USE SHARPKEYS INSTALL#

Simply download the app, it’s free and installs it on your PC just like you install any other Windows software. To find out find least used keys on Windows, use apps like Ke圜ounter. This can be done manually or with the help of third-party apps like SharpKeys, KeyExtender etc. Doing this is pretty easy and just requires you to remap windows keys. This trick really helps me as I don’t even have to lift my hand from the keyboard to grab the mouse. But wouldn’t it be more efficient if you were able to remap these duplicate keys to open Applications? For example, I have mapped my Caps Lock to open Calculator and Menu key to open Google Chrome. Pretty Useless right! Every Windows keyboard has duplicate keys and the only purpose it serves is you can use them with both your hands. Ever wondered what are you gonna do with two Shift keys, two Alt keys and the Caps Lock key.

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