Perhaps it’s my advanced age, but I keep missing the delete key and instead hitting the “end” key, which takes me to the end of my document. I never use the end key. Is there some way to deactivate it?
Well, you could always just carefully pry the plastic button off with a butterknife. It won’t damage the keyboard and you’ll be able to snap the button back on later. The beige buttons on your keyboard are actually just plastic covers for the small spring switches underneath. I’ve sometimes removed them all in order to clean a keyboard. I just had to be sure to put them back in the right places.
On a semi-related note, an army buddy once screwed me up by reversing the “N” and “M” keys on my computer. Bastard. I got him back, though offhand I can’t remember how.
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- Pop the key off, and stick something solid underneath it that allows reattaching the key, but prevents it from being pressed far enough to activate?
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- Pop the key off, and stick something solid underneath it that allows reattaching the key, but prevents it from being pressed far enough to activate?
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Keyboard mapping is defined by the current driver set and is not - I don’t believe - something you can change even with a registry hack. I remember fooling around with a file called ANSI.SYS several years ago to manually remap a key in Win95, but it was a messy complicated process & the two suggestions above seem easier by far.
I remember back in the days of DOS. On a very regular basis instead of typing DIR, I would hit DRI or some other arangement. So I made a batch file called DRI.bat with one command in it DIR. Worked like a charm. Not that this has anything to do with the OP, but I thought I’d mention it.
Keyboards are cheap. It would be easier to try and find a keyboard with larger keys or different key placement that was less susceptible to mis-typing.
HAHAHAHA, MELT THAT BASTARD KEYYYYYY
You can remap your keyboard arbitrarily, but it requites some registry black magic that depends on your operating system.
You can get all the messy details here for Windows 2000 or XP. If you run windows 95 or 98, you can use this to remap your keyboard.
Don’t be discouraged by the registry information–it’s confusing at first but it’s very powerful. I used it to switch my escape and caps lock keys.
Just yank the key off. My keyboard is missing the Caps Lock and Insert key because of my fat fingers always hitting them.
Most keyboards the key will pop out pretty easy
That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. Wish I’d thought of that…