Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, mostly in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Hotmail Frontdoor team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for the User Interface of Hotmail as well as some of the Infrastructure and Architecture. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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One of my pet peeves with Bootcamp, Apple’s software for letting you run Windows on a Mac, is that the default keymapping for Apple keyboards swaps the Alt and Windows keys.
This totally messed with my shortcuts.
I tried using one of my favorite scripting tools, AutoHotKey, to remap the keys but this ended up being flakey. I also didn’t like the idea of relying on a running application to do the swapping.
I ran into a program called SharpKeys that remaps the keys at the OS level. It’s a remarkable little program. You can configure how you want your keys remmaped and then it writes those changes to the registry. This ensures that all users of the computer have remapped keys and that the remapped keys work on non-user space like the Logon prompt.
To remap Alt to Windows you need to:
Enjoy!
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