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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Lenovo notebook keyboard blues: Misplace CTRL

The one complaint I have had with my Lenovo T61-p has been the transposition of the CTRL and FN keys.

The keyboard is quite usable for it's size but the ctrl/fn issue makes it unusable, for me. It bugs me so much that I had decided, to my dismay, that I would not buy another Lenovo. If I had hands on experience with the keyboard before cutting the check for this box I would have reconsidered.

So, I have grumbled about this for a couple years. And somehow I never thought of Ctrl2Cap, a sysinternals utility by Mark Russinovich.

Tada! I am back in love with my notebook. Granted, it is a couple years old, but with core2 2.1ghz, 8 gb fast ram and an intel x-25 SSD, I rarely find myself complaining about performance. And now I can hack out code while on the move without toting around an external keyboard. Yay!

Now I just need to install Ctrl2Cap on all my boxes for a consistant UX.

posted @ Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:08 PM | Feedback (0) |

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