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[Guest]

My 87 year old Mother keeps hitting the control key instead of shift. Thus,
when typing a capitol "A" she deletes the ntire message when she types the
next letter. Is there any way to temporarily disablt the control keys?
Thank you

Steve L.

 

[Pennywise]

My 87 year old Mother keeps hitting the control key instead of shift. Thus,
when typing a capitol "A" she deletes the ntire message when she types the
next letter. Is there any way to temporarily disablt the control keys?
Thank you

(Desktop keyboard assumed)
Pry the key off... you can always put it back on.

 

[Joe]

My 87 year old Mother keeps hitting the control key instead of shift. Thus,
when typing a capital "A" she deletes the entire message when she types the
next letter. Is there any way to temporarily disable the control keys?
Thank you

Steve L.

There are programs that will let you reassign different keys. But you
might teach her to press Ctrl/Z to undo the changes.

Here are three programs I found to possibly remap the keys:

Try KeyTweak, at http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/. It's free.

Remapper XP v1.0
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22100,00.asp

This program is supposed to allow keyboard remapping.
http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=1698

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

There are programs that will let you reassign different keys. But you
might teach her to press Ctrl/Z to undo the changes.

Here are three programs I found to possibly remap the keys:

Try KeyTweak, at http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/. It's free.

Remapper XP v1.0
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22100,00.asp

This program is supposed to allow keyboard remapping.
http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=1698

And to add to the list: SharpKeys at http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/