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How do I… Turn off the Caps Lock key? The best way to remap the Caps Lock key or any key on your keyboard is with a free utility from Microsoft called remapkey.exe. This little utility is available in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. It is one of many utilities included in the kit and works with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista. This TechRepublic How do I… shows you how to use the remapkey.exe utility to remap the Caps Lock key. Download from the following site. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en Remapping Once you download and run the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools file, you will have a long laundry list of utilities located in a single directory. I used the default location :Figure A Figure A When you start the remapkey utility, it presents a screen displaying two keyboards, as shown in Figure B. Figure B < ![endif]--> Remapkey utility The top keyboard is the standard base keyboard layout. To remap the Caps Lock key, in the top keyboard, left-click on the key you would like the Caps Lock to be remapped to, drag it to the bottom keyboard, and drop it on the Caps Lock key there. In my example, I am remapping the Caps Lock key to the left Shift key. (Note the red key in Figure C.) Figure C < ![endif]--> Caps Lock is now left Shift When you are satisfied with your remapping choices, click the Save Settings And Exit icon to implement the change (Figure D). A reboot of the operating system will be required for the change to take effect. Figure D < ![endif]--> Save settings and exit As you can see in Figure E, the remapkey utility is writing to the Windows registry, just like the methods mentioned earlier were going to do, but this gives you more control over that delicate editing process. Figure E < ![endif]--> Writing to the Windows registry Note: For Windows Vista you will have to run the remapkey utility in administrator mode.