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Open Start and type in device manager. This will search your computer for the 'Device Manager' program, which allows you to reset hardware on your computer. If your keyboard won't let you type correctly, scroll down to the Windows System folder and click it, click Control Panel, click the 'View by' option and then select Large Icons if you're in Category view, and find Device Manager. Click + and select your preferred keyboard layout. If your regular keyboard layout isn't listed, click the icon with a plus (+) sign below 'Keyboards' in the sidebar to the left. Then click the keyboard layout you want to use. This adds the keyboard layout to your list of available keyboard layouts. Download and install Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 on your Windows 8.1 computer and then run setup from the saved files on your usb stick. It will load your customised keyboard straight to your keyboard toolbar at the bottom right of your screen. If you are having a tough time re-mapping the keys on your keyboard, SharpKeys does. Note: I tried these tools on my computer running Windows 10 Pro and they worked perfectly fine. However, these tools will work on older Windows versions, like Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 etc. Remap Keyboard in Windows 10 Using Third Party Tools. Remapping keys on your Windows device is pretty easy if you know which tools to use.
Maybe a key is broken on your keyboard or you want the keys to function differently than it is intended then you have to remap the keyboard. This post will show you how to solve the problem of broken key or swapping the keys with the help of a tiny utility known as ‘KeyTweak’. This method works on every version of Windows. If you want to remap the keyboard keys in Linux then you can follow this post.
In my keyboard ‘Delete’ key is broken so I am going to remap it to ‘Insert’ key. You can follow the same procedure for remapping other keys as well.
Steps:
- Download and install KeyTweak.zip
- If you are on 64-bit Windows then goto following location and open KeyTweak.exeIf you are using 32-bit Windows then goto following location and open KeyTweak.exe
- Press the key you want to remap or click the number in KeyTweak window (helpful if key is broken). You don’t need to be confused with the numbers because you can see which key is selected after you click on the its respective number.
- Click on ‘Choose New Remapping’ dropdown button and choose the new action you want to assign for the selected key then click on ‘Remap Key’
- Finally click on ‘Apply’and restart the computer.
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After the reboot you will be able to use your customized mapping. If you face any difficulty while performing the steps mentioned above comment below and also donot forget to share your experience on remapping the keyboard.