Re: [h-e-w] "Ctrl" key wears out long before remaining keys

[Howard Melman]

On Sunday Apr 7, 2002, Peter Davis wrote:

> At 04:25 PM 03/18/2002, Sarir A Khamsi wrote:
> 
> >To double the life of your keyboard, you could swap the ctrl and the caps
> >lock keys, as one gets close to getting worn out. The instructions are in
> >the Emacs FAQ. You may also want to switch to decaf coffee. :-)
> 
> The FAQ I've seen at 
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq3.html#capscontrol> talks 
> about how to swap these keys on Win95, WinNT, etc.  Is there any newer 
> information on Windows 2000 or XP?

Chris McMahon's explicit step-by-step instructions on modifying the registry. 
work fine on W2K and XP.

Howard