Does Ctrl2Cap work with Windows 10

The old Unix environments, X-windows, and power text editors make extensive use of the Ctrl key. When running such environments & apps on modern era Windows laptops, e.g., perhaps via Cygwin, the odd placement of Ctrl keys are a handicap, and can easily lead to carpal tunnel syndrome.

One solution in the past few decades has been Sysinternals's Ctr2Cap, which seems to have been taken over by Microsoft (assuming that it didn't originate from a Microsoft effort).

Does anyone know whether Ctrl2Cap works on Windows 10?

Solution 1:

For me it broke keyboard input, and I had to restore using System Restore. When I have more time I can research, but make sure you have System Restore ready and available.

Solution 2:

I can confirm that it works on Windows 10. I unzipped the archive, ran .\ctrl2cap.exe /install in the directory and restarted my computer; now my caps lock key and both my ctrl keys behave like ctrl.

Solution 3:

For a several Win10 installations I successfully use following patch that should be applied to registry (for example create text file named caps_to_control.reg):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[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