Map Caps-Lock to Control in Windows 8.1

Using regedit is the best way imo as you know it works. This will make caps-lock an additional ctrl. But won't mess with ctrl itself.

For windows 7 and 8 do the following:

Open regedit.exe

Go to this directory (in regedit):

~/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/KeyboardLayout/

After clicking on that directory (KeyboardLayout) right click in the right box and add new Binary Value called 'Scancode Map'

For windows 7 write this:

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
02 00 00 00 1D 00 3A 00
00 00 00 00

For windows 8 write this, I have verified that this works on 8.1 and 10 (this is just four extra zeros):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
02 00 00 00 1D 00 3A 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Hit okay and reboot.

SharpKeys did it for me! I couldn't find any other way and as you've discovered the old registry hack doesn't work anymore :(

http://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/

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