I’m used to having a caps lock button where the search button is on my Chromebook, and I keep accidentally hitting the search button anytime I need to uppercase a letter. It’s incredibly annoying! Can somebody please help me to discover how to have Windows 10 recognize this keyboard’s search button as a caps lock button? Please, I’m at my wit’s end over here.
I have a Samsung Chromebook 3 (CELES) laptop running Windows 10 OS on it, just for quick reference.
Update: I was able to solve my own problem using a series of thorough Google searches. Basically, I ended up using this program through the Microsoft Store called “SharpKeys” and it was fairly simple to figure out what to do after that. On the appropriate window, I selected the “Left Window” button for the Search button I was referencing in my original post and replaced it with the “Caps Lock” when asked what I wished to replace the Windows key with. I opened this post to give it a try and, lo and behold, it works perfectly! I would have done it through the “Registry Editor” on my laptop to avoid downloading anything more onto this laptop with barely any space on it, but I didn’t know what to plug into it. I just opened the registry once more to see about something else and I noticed that the code I could have used is now present in the following location:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
There is a red icon and next to it says (Default). That was there when I first looked into the registry. What’s different this time is the next row, which has a blue icon with the words “Scancode Map” next to it. The Type is REG_BINARY and the Data code is as follows:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 002 00 00 00 3A 00 5B E0 00 00 00 00
In case anyone wants to mess around in the registry editor for Chromebook to Windows issues, this should help you. Take care!
Just wanted to thank you. By following your steps I managed to remap my keyboard. Thanks.