Sometime today, something occurred with my machine where the caps lock key is now mapped to Shift. It's annoying as I need to use Caps Lock for, among other things, a spreadsheet that I'm working on (not to mention CRUISE CONTROL, etc).
The only remotely plausible cause for this is the following registry entry, located at the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout
The key is as follows:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,2a,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00
I don't have anything like AutoHotKey or such installed, and I didn't get a new keyboard, or change my keymapping. I lock my PC while it's unattended, and I run the domain here, so it's not someone else messing with my stuff.
Answer
In my XP there is no "Scancode Map", just deleting that value should reset keyboard layout to default.
Some people here at my office prefer to swap r-ctrl with caps lock. Got the following .reg scripts to change this:
caps-ctrl-swap.reg:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,3a,00,1d,00,00,00,00,00
Is for swaping
caps-as-ctrl.reg:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00
Is for mapping capslock to ctrl only
(reboot might be needed after changing those, but unsure)
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